Sonoma installer is left behind in launchpad after the install

Hi all.


Maybe this will be useful to some.


In my case, the MacOS Sonoma installer remains in the launchpad even after the install.


To delete it, it seems you can't yet delete it in the standard way with other launchpad apps (that is select it and keep selecting it to make the X appear on it, then click the X).


If you try to start it, the icon changes and a question mark appears on top of it. Then you can use the standard launchpad apps deletion process mentioned above.


Best regards,


Joe



Mac mini, macOS 10.14

Posted on Sep 27, 2023 11:45 PM

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Posted on Sep 28, 2023 8:44 AM

joeslomp wrote:

Hi all.

Maybe this will be useful to some.

In my case, the MacOS Sonoma installer remains in the launchpad even after the install.

To delete it, it seems you can't yet delete it in the standard way with other launchpad apps (that is select it and keep selecting it to make the X appear on it, then click the X).

If you try to start it, the icon changes and a question mark appears on top of it. Then you can use the standard launchpad apps deletion process mentioned above.

Best regards,

Joe



thx Joe

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Sep 28, 2023 8:44 AM in response to joeslomp

joeslomp wrote:

Hi all.

Maybe this will be useful to some.

In my case, the MacOS Sonoma installer remains in the launchpad even after the install.

To delete it, it seems you can't yet delete it in the standard way with other launchpad apps (that is select it and keep selecting it to make the X appear on it, then click the X).

If you try to start it, the icon changes and a question mark appears on top of it. Then you can use the standard launchpad apps deletion process mentioned above.

Best regards,

Joe



thx Joe

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