Launchpad - How do you put a new app icon in an icon folder that is on the right corner of a row?

This drives me crazy and I've yet to see a solution on how you accomplish this. I like Launchpad but if you have organized your icons into groups and the group you want to place a new icon into happens to be on the far right side of any row, when you attempt to drag the new app icon into the group, Launchpad "thinks" you want to place the new icon in that space so the group flips to the next row down. You end up in this groundhog day loop of chasing the group all over the screen and it becomes virtually impossible to drag the new icon into the group. Is there some magic key combination to stop this behavior? This is just ridiculous.

Posted on Apr 6, 2023 6:18 AM

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Posted on Apr 6, 2023 7:59 AM

If you hold (while still clicking the mouse button) the new icon over the container for a few seconds. Then it will open as a container and allow you to drop it in. If that doesn't work, drag the container to a middle position away from any side and try again.

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Apr 6, 2023 8:13 AM in response to Randall_2023

No it won't. The container below will shift to the row below and it becomes impossible to place the icon in the container. You literally cannot hold the icon over the container because it keeps jumping to the row below. That is my point. This usually only happens on containers that are physically located on the far right. A hack to get around it is to take the container you really want on the right and then move it to the center of the row and then pixel by pixel try to slowly move the icon you want to place and 1 out of 4 times maybe the stupid container will actually stay in place long enough to allow you to place the icon inside. Then of course because you really want that container on the far right you have to then get the container and move it to the right again.


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