My Dock & Launchpad keep crashing/won't open

Hi, I'm an iMac 2006 (a1207) Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X Lion (10.7.5) user. Today I was organizing my apps with folders in Launchpad, I filled a folder completely (maybe more than I should) and while naming the folder it started to freeze, then while I was typing the name Launchpad closed. I could no longer open Launchpad with F4 and the Dock bar was completely gone! I tried in the settings but nothing changed and the background photo was keep turning white and back to normal, I guess the Dock or Launchpad was always trying to reopen itself but couldn't, when I looked at the activity monitor “ReportCrash” was using 102.2% CPU and I was sure. The Dock app couldn't handle what I did in Launchpad and crashed every time it tried to reopen. I need the location on the computer of the code that holds the location of the apps and folders in Launchpad.

Thanks.

Posted on Dec 12, 2024 5:35 AM

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Posted on Dec 12, 2024 9:27 AM

SOLVED :

Open your terminal and type:

```rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db```

and restart Dock:

```killall Dock```

Suggestion: try to do not fill the app folders on Mac OS X Lion.

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