Comments on: Open Mac OS X Finder from LaunchPad

By: Noah

Noah — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:48:31 +0000

You can also do this with other applications in the CoreServices folder like Dock and Screen Sharing.

By: Ado

Ado — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:39:14 +0000

How to turn it back people???

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The command advised earlier doesn’t work!

By: Drew

Drew — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:09:45 +0000

This is very useful for people who hate the Dock, such as myself. As you can’t actually kill the dock outright, I use TinkerTool to set the dock pop up time to 10sec, which essentially stops it being activated at all and use LaunchPad as my primary GUI App launcher.
In all honesty I tend to use Spotlight for most of it though…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:50:52 +0000

Steve, try this instead:

sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db “DELETE from apps WHERE title=’Finder’;” && killall Dock

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:50:18 +0000

Steve, try this instead:

sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db “DELETE from apps WHERE title=’Finder’;” && killall Dock

By: Steve Schulte

Steve Schulte — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:22:48 +0000

Did you find a solution to this? It has put the word Finder on my desktop, on top of everything – screwed up my launcher and dock – what a mess, why did I do this?!?! Help

Best regards,

Steve Schulte
Saturday 2 June 2012

By: Steve Schulte

Steve Schulte — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:19:05 +0000

Yes how to remove the Finder.app from the launchpad – I tried the terminal command – it did NOT work HELP!!

Best regards,

Steve Schulte
Saturday 2 June 2012

By: jo

jo — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:29:27 +0000

hi, no response this

sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db “DELETE FROM apps WHERE title=’Finder’” && killall Dock

in the terminal for remove Finder.app in Launchpad… Please HELP

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:46:54 +0000

To people who are asking how to remove Finder from LaunchPad:

Open a Terminal application and run this:

sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db “DELETE FROM apps WHERE title=’Finder’” && killall Dock

By: AhDu

AhDu — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:09:55 +0000

So can you please show me how to remove finder from my launchpad?

By: AhDu

AhDu — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:09:10 +0000

How do u revert this back? I tried it to see if it’s useful, but end it didn’t like it much lol thanx in advance.

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By: AhDu

AhDu — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:13:02 +0000

How do u revert this back? I tried it to see if it’s useful, but end it didn’t like it much lol thanx in advance.

By: heh

heh — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:42:31 +0000

This is useful if you want to use LaunchPad as your primary application launcher and have the Dock and your Desktop icons hidden, you can click on the Finder icon in LaunchPad and then open a Desktop window. I think it’s for people who are bored

By: James

James — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:05:16 +0000

I hope you meant “sarcasm” instead of “irony”.

As is the case with many tips – I don’t understand why you’d want to do this. But… I’m sure there are people who do.