Comments on: Refresh Launchpad in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

By: sanjay sharma

sanjay sharma — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:04:04 +0000

thanks for the help

By: Ashok Maurya

Ashok Maurya — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:20:09 +0000

Excellent tutorial. Just need to share. It shows:
1. Applications distributed by Apple in alphabetical order,
2. Applications installed for all users in alphabetical order, 3. Any minor apps installed in other directories for all users(like subdirectories in Utilities),
4. Applications installed for current users only

Of course you can do manual changes as well for any change in order. Thanks

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:01:40 +0000

How do I use the killall command? Someone help :/

By: Rakesh Agarwal

Rakesh Agarwal — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:08:34 +0000

Thanks .. It worked the way I wanted it. You are awesome

By: Nixon

Nixon — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:58:44 +0000

I’m still estranged as to why Apple haven’t thought of including a separate system preferences to launch pad. I, myself, is one of many within my network who can see the possibilities in the Launch Pad app, but I still find it to be a mess in many ways. Hope there’ll be a fix soonish. Although I wouldn’t be surprised to see the fix being Mountain Lion only, which I’ve been dreading since Lion. God, have I dealt with many issues regarding Lion.

By: Deepak

Deepak — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:02:56 +0000

Works fine for me. Thnx

By: Flex

Flex — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:40:47 +0000

It doesn’t work.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:13:59 +0000

A gui alternative is to use the Activity Monitor and go to the “dock” process and quit it. I had a folder that was not showing anything but the dashed lines around it. Anytime I clicked on it launchpad would exit. This fixed it the same as the command “killall dock”.

By: tk

tk — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:18:54 +0000

I am not sure if this is related, but i have a similar problem of the icons in launchpad not loading when launchpad opens for atleast 20 seconds so the all just appear as squares. Anyone else have this problem?

By: KentuckyFriedChickenesha

KentuckyFriedChickenesha — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:17:31 +0000

If for example you changed an icon of an app, instead of killing the dock like I tried and was still unsuccessful at refreshing the launchpad database, or deleting the .db file you can just rename that app and then name it back and that icon will change…

By: Nat

Nat — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:42:58 +0000

I have another problem: when I sort all my apps in folders in Launchpad, each time I install or disinstall something, the mess from the beginning appears (no folders, just pages of apps) so I have to use Launchpad Control each time… is there any hint for this? I’d love to have there my order….

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:35:51 +0000

THANK YOU, YOU CHAMPION!!!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:15:15 +0000

Look at the Launchpad icon. Then look at the blue corner of the game center app icon on your idevice. MIND=BLOWN!!

Aside my shenanigans, I like the launchpad feature. It’s not really useless. In my opinion it’s a much, much faster way to get to my apps and not one of the useless gimmicks that came with lion.

By: David

David — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:26:37 +0000

killall Dock has become my ‘go to’ command with Lion for unfreezing Mission Control. Ah, the pain of early adoption.

By: John

John — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:26:11 +0000

I hope 10.7.1 resolves the bugs with LaunchPad, I can’t delete over half the apps so I just created a huge folder called MISC that holds everything that I can’t remove manually. Buggy, but I use it more than I thought I would.