I rooted my phone yesterday with casual, twrp all that stuff. I had installed a few apps to explore the perks of being rooted. I had backed up with twrp. Looking at my storage and noticed a large amount of memory used in my miscellaneous section. So I went into it and deleted everything....I think thats where I messed up. My phone still works fine. Just no photos. I had very important pictures of my son on my phone. I tried using a recovery app.root to recover them but it said I had no FAT files. Any help on what I can do will be greatly appreciated
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jt_lipka said:
I rooted my phone yesterday with casual, twrp all that stuff. I had installed a few apps to explore the perks of being rooted. I had backed up with twrp. Looking at my storage and noticed a large amount of memory used in my miscellaneous section. So I went into it and deleted everything....I think thats where I messed up. My phone still works fine. Just no photos. I had very important pictures of my son on my phone. I tried using a recovery app.root to recover them but it said I had no FAT files. Any help on what I can do will be greatly appreciated.
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I've read in elsewhere that miscellaneous storage is actually the aggregation of various types of files including media. So if you were able to delete miscellaneous files then perhaps that's why you would have deleted the photos.
Ok. Do you know if there is a way to recover those deleted files?
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Ok. Do you know if there is a way to recover those deleted files?
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Just searched "undelete files" at Google Play and this came up:
Undelete for Root Users
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Undelete for Root Users
Undelete for Android is an application for root users that allows you to recover any deleted files from your SD card or internal storage. LOOK IN "UNDELETE" FOLDER FOR FILES. With support for over 1000 file types, ...
Tried that. Got an error message on startup after grant root permissions. It said it appears I have no FAT file system storage and if I know I do then I can send log to them and after I hit ok it exits out of the app...
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Tried that. Got an error message on startup after grant root permissions. It said it appears I have no FAT file system storage and if I know I do then I can send log to them and after I hit ok it exits out of the app...
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I would suggest you send the log to them. I would check in their release notes to see which "FAT" formatting they support. Some may support exFAT while others may support FAT32. Depending on how you're formatted, you may or may not meet their spec. I know this is always a big issue for kernels as well, as some kernels can recognize ext2/3/4/5 and FAT32 but not exFAT.
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My software on my droid x2 isn't doing good. From what I have seen something will happen in the background that causes all my system apps to restart, only they never finish restarting which begins to devour my memory and eventually leads to my phone freezing up. Also the ringtones like to change randomly to default (alarms set in third party apps too).
I was hoping rooting and getting rid of bloatware would solve this problem but it is still persisting. I thought I could restore backed up system apps with Titanium Backup so I was removing the apps. I'll leave them "restoring" for 45 minutes with no luck (I tried both just restoring the app and restoring both apps and data). So apparently it doesn't work like that.
My question is if I do a factory reset with my phone in its current condition, will I have an issue?
If u diddnt freeze the apps then you might. Did u back them up before u removed them?
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Yes I backed up all of them, but when I go to restore them it doesn't work. It just keeps restoring them eternally. I waited 45 minutes for app only restore and it wasn't done.
If I am just clearing data in the process of a factory reset, can I maybe wipe data manually or with a tool that wipes data?
Anyone know the answer to this? I tried installing from the apk pack of services, but not all of them would install. My phone really needs a factory reset, I'm getting a lot of software related errors.
Could I maybe manually wipe certain apps? If anyone happens to know which built in apps are okay to wipe I would like to know.
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Anyone know the answer to this? I tried installing from the apk pack of services, but not all of them would install. My phone really needs a factory reset, I'm getting a lot of software related errors.
Could I maybe manually wipe certain apps? If anyone happens to know which built in apps are okay to wipe I would like to know.
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Yes you can wipe an apps data. Go to applications in the settings menu and then click on the app you want to clear and select clear data.
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ryoxsinfar said:
Anyone know the answer to this? I tried installing from the apk pack of services, but not all of them would install. My phone really needs a factory reset, I'm getting a lot of software related errors.
Could I maybe manually wipe certain apps? If anyone happens to know which built in apps are okay to wipe I would like to know.
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Not all the apps in system can be installed via tapping on them. They need to be manually moved to system/app then change permissions. You can copy all over using root explorer
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Yes you can wipe an apps data. Go to applications in the settings menu and then click on the app you want to clear and select clear data.
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Hey nitro... Glad to see you here! Do your future plans include developing for the X2. I was feeling the dark ROMs you supported on the Fascinate!
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hiii everyone, i am new android user, so please help me, i dont know where to ask questions in this forum so i am querying here.
i have a micromax a58 i just rooted it with farmaroot.
now i want to make it like before, what will happen if i restore factory setting or hard reset.
will my phone brick.
abhishek5694 said:
hiii everyone, i am new android user, so please help me, i dont know where to ask questions in this forum so i am querying here.
i have a micromax a58 i just rooted it with farmaroot.
now i want to make it like before, what will happen if i restore factory setting or hard reset.
will my phone brick.
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Nothing. You will just have a rooted out of the box fresh condition phone.
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nitroglycerine33 said:
Nothing. You will just have a rooted out of the box fresh condition phone.
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very very thank to u sir , as i can u see u r a super seiner of this group , i am sharing my problem with you. i asked a lot of people and search everywhere in web but didnt found my problems solution. i just want to increase my phone's ( micromax bolt a58 ) internal memory, because it has only 90 mb for apps after installing few apps it says insufficient memory. i found a easy solution link2sd. but it doesn't work with my phone. i just created 1st partition of fat32 and second ext2 and then i started link2sd and select ext2 but it says mounting error try with fat32 then i again formatted card with two fat32 partition after that it didnt work and again says mounting error, then i tried a lot of combinations but no result.:crying: i am also attaching the screenshots. please help me.
abhishek5694 said:
very very thank to u sir , as i can u see u r a super seiner of this group , i am sharing my problem with you. i asked a lot of people and search everywhere in web but didnt found my problems solution. i just want to increase my phone's ( micromax bolt a58 ) internal memory, because it has only 90 mb for apps after installing few apps it says insufficient memory. i found a easy solution link2sd. but it doesn't work with my phone. i just created 1st partition of fat32 and second ext2 and then i started link2sd and select ext2 but it says mounting error try with fat32 then i again formatted card with two fat32 partition after that it didnt work and again says mounting error, then i tried a lot of combinations but no result.:crying: i am also attaching the screenshots. please help me.
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All you need to do is swap internal and external mount points. My Eclipse ROM has this built in. There is an init.d script that is floating around here that will do it as well.
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All you need to do is swap internal and external mount points. My Eclipse ROM has this built in. There is an init.d script that is floating around here that will do it as well.
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sorry sir i am novice in this field and dont know about software development or scripting. and dont want to replace or flash my original rom with other. because i also tried to backup my original rom with rom manager, but this **** phone is so weird , no trick works in it, somewhere i read that it is ubifs or something why it didnt work. so can u please mention step by step procedure in easy language so that i can understand how can i increase internal memory.
Hi all, was trying to format another memory card that i have because it would not read in windows for some reason,so anyway i inserted into my phone and formatted emmc thinking it was this other card but turns out i wiped almost everything from my phone(backups, music,pics) everything!! is there no way of retrieving anything, thanks in advance!!
Recuva might be able to recover data that's in folders you can normally see when you hook the phone up to a PC (I.E not in system folders). A Google search also reveals Android specific data recovery apps tho I can't vouch for those.
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Recuva might be able to recover data that's in folders you can normally see when you hook the phone up to a PC (I.E not in system folders). A Google search also reveals Android specific data recovery apps tho I can't vouch for those.
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Thanks for reply mate but that didnt work, am going to have a look at some recovery programs to see if i can get anywhere with that!!
http://www.runtime.org/gdb.zip
Install it on PC and scan for files. If it will find something, I'll give you further instructions.
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http://www.runtime.org/gdb.zip
Install it on PC and scan for files. If it will find something, I'll give you further instructions.
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Hi mate, thanks for this, i now have it installed.. Awaiting instructions!!
Have you scanned your memory?
I have mate but it never recovered anything, that I could tell anyway. No images, music etc. Think it did find an old backup though!!
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In the device memory, despite the memory of 414MB used by applications (out of 2GB) ,the available is only 505MB.
Where is it gone?
Big question is "How can i get it back?"
Additional - ICS 4.0.3 (I777UCLE5) ,Rooted
EDIT : I found in root explorer, /data/log has occupied 514 MB (of the 2 GB device storage).
Is it an important folder or can i just delete it?
Ok you mention memory. Are we taking about memory or STORAGE space? ?
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In the device memory, despite the memory of 414MB used by applications (out of 2GB) ,the available is only 505MB.
Where is it gone?
Big question is "How can i get it back?"
Additional - ICS 4.0.3 (I777UCLE5) ,Rooted
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That's strange, did you repartition anything? I would also not depend on the information you get from touchwiz. Try installing a 3rd party app to verify this is the case.
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Ok you mention memory. Are we taking about memory or STORAGE space? ?
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no its not RAM..its device storage
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That's strange, did you repartition anything? I would also not depend on the information you get from touchwiz. Try installing a 3rd party app to verify this is the case.
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no repartition done.....can you mention a 3rd party app...
Factory reset
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no repartition done.....can you mention a 3rd party app...
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Any task manager app will probably give you that info.
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Any task manager app will probably give you that info.
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I don't think so.
He need DiskUsage.
Just download from play.
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Look at the contents of the folder. If there are only logs - you can delete (the logs, not the folder). If not - post the contents here (filenames and respective sizes).
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I don't think so.
He need DiskUsage.
Just download from play.
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Task managers usually have disk info.
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Look at the contents of the folder. If there are only logs - you can delete (the logs, not the folder). If not - post the contents here (filenames and respective sizes).
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I went ahead and deleted the folder.....
I got much storage back. 1.2GB free now.
( After reboot it formed a new "log" folder without any log files....)
I found other folder "data/lost+found" consuming nearly 350MB.Can i delete this one too?
So in the end, what did we learn from this? Search through your phone with a file explorer app and delete anything unnecessary. Don't know if its important? Google the file name or directory name. I'm sure someone somewhere has wondered the same thing be4 you did. I'm glad you got your issue resolved bud. Good luck, happy flashing.
I'm not going to delete the "lost+found" folder.1.2GB is suffice for me now.Why mess-up?
I am in need of freeing up space on my device. Out of the 16Gb I only have 2.xGb available now. I do have at least 2 backups on my phone, and 2 helium backups. Looking at the math, they should not take up that much room:
Stock.zip 1.7G
slim.zip 1.6G
Helium1 642MB
Helium2 733MB
= 4.65G
So that really doesn't make any sense to me. I reviewed my apps and I had a lot of google play cached, but I deleted all of that data through app management. So I can't figure what is taking up all of this space.
1. if I delete my backups from the device, which I have transferred to my computer, and then paste them back in, will they work? Will they work if I format the phone?
2. In reality I would have no problem formatting the phone to wipe everything and flash a rom again via OTG cable through CWM. However, I am at a loss as to what selection(s) in CWM I make to fix my problem.
1) there is actually only 11-12G actually available to the user, on all DNA's, on all ROMs
2) you can move back ups around. i keep a copy of mine in dropbox and on my computer, but never on my phone.
3) you have to have apps, app cache, music, pics, ect to have such little space. you need to look at your /data partition and your /sdcard partition when calculating space.
4) wth is helium?
Helium used to be carbon backup. But I'll look at my directories and review the space used
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Ok. So I was able to free up a bunch of space and removed a single backup, leaving stock.zip on board in case of crashing and need of assistance with Verizon though 99% unlikely to happen. I was having major issues finding where helium stored its data because it is blocked from the user. But luckily the Storage option in >Settings>Storage in slimbean is much greater in depth than I'm used to. So I was able to detect where a lot of my data was coming from which was various sources, but some were helium/Carbon, and also old DL files of CM that were sitting around.
But for the sake of knowing, If I did want to wipe everything through CWM and format, would I choose everything? or just a single option.
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Helium used to be carbon backup. But I'll look at my directories and review the space used
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Ok. So I was able to free up a bunch of space and removed a single backup, leaving stock.zip on board in case of crashing and need of assistance with Verizon though 99% unlikely to happen. I was having major issues finding where helium stored its data because it is blocked from the user. But luckily the Storage option in >Settings>Storage in slimbean is much greater in depth than I'm used to. So I was able to detect where a lot of my data was coming from which was various sources, but some were helium/Carbon, and also old DL files of CM that were sitting around.
But for the sake of knowing, If I did want to wipe everything through CWM and format, would I choose everything? or just a single option.
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well its been a while since i've used CMW, and im on TWRP. but it depends on how far down you want to format. if you want to just do a regular wipe, and reload a new rom then the usual wipe is your /system, /data, /cache, /dalvik, and /boot. im not sure what CWM calls them, but those are the usual partitions. just make sure you have a new rom ready or a backup. if you wanted to reformat even FURTHER than that, you could flash the stock rocovery and do a fac reset. but thats only if you are have major issue across all roms.
OK. Thanks for the response. I'm going to research why so many people tend to prefer twrp now.
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OK. Thanks for the response. I'm going to research why so many people tend to prefer twrp now.
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i think one of the main factors was that it works with some ROMs OTA functions, especially Viper roms, which are very popular. myself, i just wanted to try it out lol
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OK. Thanks for the response. I'm going to research why so many people tend to prefer twrp now.
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If u came from a Rom that was on 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 to a Rom that is 4.2.2 then check the /sdcard directory.. not sdcard0. I think its also in data/media. Not sdcard/data/media but striaght data/media. Use a root file manager and if u still have files in there, then delete everything except the 0/ folder. Happened to me a couple times and I freed up around 2-4 gb everytime
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If u came from a Rom that was on 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 to a Rom that is 4.2.2 then check the /sdcard directory.. not sdcard0. I think its also in data/media. Not sdcard/data/media but striaght data/media. Use a root file manager and if u still have files in there, then delete everything except the 0/ folder. Happened to me a couple times and I freed up around 2-4 gb everytime
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I looked into that and saw what you were referring to. My only concern is that data/media is where my stock.zip recovery is saved. I'm not sure if I'm quite ready to remove that from my device yet. Also, do I need any of the CWM stuff found in data/media still? I am not referring to data/media/0.
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I looked into that and saw what you were referring to. My only concern is that data/media is where my stock.zip recovery is saved. I'm not sure if I'm quite ready to remove that from my device yet. Also, do I need any of the CWM stuff found in data/media still? I am not referring to data/media/0.
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Update: I'm glad I checked. I performed a backup of my current rom and CWM placed it in /data/media/clockworkmod. So this is an active directory that CWM is using for my backups. So I don't believe I'll be deleting the /data/media/clockworkmod directory. But will then anything else be impacted if deleted?
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Update: I'm glad I checked. I performed a backup of my current rom and CWM placed it in /data/media/clockworkmod. So this is an active directory that CWM is using for my backups. So I don't believe I'll be deleting the /data/media/clockworkmod directory. But will then anything else be impacted if deleted?
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Oh if you still have your backups there then dont delete that cwm folder.. but try and delete anything else that seems useless. What Rom are you on now?
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Oh if you still have your backups there then dont delete that cwm folder.. but try and delete anything else that seems useless. What Rom are you on now?
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On slimbean. The remaining 4.1 files are from stock. All roms i have used are 4.2.
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On slimbean. The remaining 4.1 files are from stock. All roms i have used are 4.2.
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Alright I'm pretty sure its the data/media/android folder that has a pretty good chunk of memory. Try and delete that. It wont mess up your current setup because your android folder is on the sdcard 0
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Also if you took pictures, downloaded stuff, or have music when you were on stock, then dont touch folders like dcim, download, music, pictures, ect. I personally move all my files when I switch between 4.1 to 4.2 fro. Sdcard to sdcard0. If you want to do that use a computer to make sure it transfered right because I used es filemanager once and it said it transfered but instead all of it was lost. I think someone made a .zip file that could transfer everything but I can't remember
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Alright I'm pretty sure its the data/media/android folder that has a pretty good chunk of memory. Try and delete that. It wont mess up your current setup because your android folder is on the sdcard 0
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Also if you took pictures, downloaded stuff, or have music when you were on stock, then dont touch folders like dcim, download, music, pictures, ect. I personally move all my files when I switch between 4.1 to 4.2 fro. Sdcard to sdcard0. If you want to do that use a computer to make sure it transfered right because I used es filemanager once and it said it transfered but instead all of it was lost. I think someone made a .zip file that could transfer everything but I can't remember
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Sounds good. In regards to the pictures. I believe you posted about that somewhere else before, or someone else did. I saw the issues. I use dropbox and don't have any music on my device other than google music cache. So I cleared a lot of that stuff up. thanks for your help.
I tried to update to MI1, it downloaded, but the update failed and gave me error code 402. Now I lost a bunch of space in my internal storage. It's gotta be the update files...where can I delete those?
I'm currently on ME7 stock rooted.
thank you!!
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I tried to update to MI1, it downloaded, but the update failed and gave me error code 402. Now I lost a bunch of space in my internal storage. It's gotta be the update files...where can I delete those?
I'm currently on ME7 stock rooted.
thank you!!
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If you have debloated your stock rom then you will need to restore those apps as well as any modified APKs before you can update to MI1.
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/cache I believe
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I looked in the cache file and the only folder that had stuff in it was "Recovery" and it had today's date.
Inside are "last_install", "last_locale" and "last_log". Each has a SQLite db viewer, zip, tar, and rar viewers,apk handler,Linux script handler, and text viewer.
Can anyone tell me if it's safe to clear all of that? I want my gig of internal memory back since I can't install the update!
Ota files are stored in data/fota
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Ota files are stored in data/fota
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My data/fota folder is empty, so whatever is taking up the extra internal storage isn't there. I know I've read here that updates leave files on your phone that take up space and can be removed. I would imagine a failed update would leave stuff on there too. I've been looking on these forums all morning and no joy
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My data/fota folder is empty, so whatever is taking up the extra internal storage isn't there. I know I've read here that updates leave files on your phone that take up space and can be removed. I would imagine a failed update would leave stuff on there too. I've been looking on these forums all morning and no joy
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I thought it was in /cache/fota - that directory is restricted so you'll need to be root to view the contents.
Edit: Lost my mind