Launchpad - how to delete items ?

Hi Luis,

Indeed I missed your last post. I have not tried it but I do not think it would have solved my problem.

Meanwhile I have solved the problem as follows.

Fact is that there was more than one Applications Folder on my Mac. Migration Assistant created, in my User Account, an additional Applications Folder with references to applications that were in the old computer and not on the new one.

Now, Launchpad creates and lists an icon for every application, irrespective of what Applications Folder it is listed on.

I deleted the spurious Applications Folder created in my User Account by Migration Assistant and my Launchpad is now perfectly clean : it only contains icons for the applications appearing in the 'official' Applications Folder of my Mac.

Thanks for all the support.

Nunof

P.S. If there was a means to assign NEGATIVE stars to an application I would have given -4 stars to Migration Assistant. Not -5 because it did correctly transfer my old iTunes Library onto Music (the single and only thing I have asked it to do). Apart from that, because it messes up with lots of things that you have clearly indicated you did not want it to touch, it is an inexhaustible source of problems that will take you days if not weeks to discover and correct after you have used it 😋

Thanks Luis.

Yes it is like in the iPhone. Pressing and holding make the icons shake. But, unlike in the iPhone, there is no X to delete.

Some, related to some applications that I had previously installed, do have an X allowing to delete. However, most, including the spurious generic shortcut-like icons that Migration Assistant brought over, do not have a X to delete.

It's kind of a cosmetic 'problem' but it still bothers me. Some day a solution will pop-up somewhere.

Thanks again for your help.

Nunof

Hi Luis,

I have just understood that what I have as Launchpad is the Launchpad that Migration Assistant brought over from the old computer to the new. No wonder that some icons point to applications that were in the old computer but not in the new one.

It seems that what I need to do is to delete the current Launchpad and create a new one that will contain icons related to the appliactions that I do have on the new computer.

I am going to investigate how to delete an entire Launchpad alltogether and then create a new one and the include reference icons in the new one.

Thanks again.

Nunof