How to add missing apps to Launchpad? Most of the apps in my Finder do not appear in Launchpad.

It still will not pickup all the installed programs - only the Apple installations.

You could try resetting LaunchPad by deleting the file that is in your user/Library/Application Support/Dock

There are multiple screens on the launch pad, newly installed programs are on the second screen. Just swipe to the left to see the second screen 🙂

That was the missing bit of information I did not have. I wonder how many others think they have a problem and do not? Thank you very much - now I have to organize things.

I followed these steps in order to reset the launchpad. Is this correct?

1. cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock
2. rm *.db
3. killall Dock

Moreover I realised that the apps listed on the second screen are the ones not belonging to apple (Xlite, VLC, ecc...). The problem is that there are at lest other 5-6 non apple apps that are not listed at all in the launchpad (e.g cyberduck, chicken of the vnc, dropbox, doubletwist, ...) 😟

No, that's not true. It picks up all kinds of 3rd party apps, and apparently at random. Why would anyone want to waste their time with this, in the state that it's in? There is no fix now.

Maybe I found the reason why not all the apps are listed in the launchpad:

If you run the utilites "system information" and check the section Software -> applications then you will see the list of ALL the apps installed on your mac. It seems that all the apps with kind = "Universal" are not listed in the launchpad. Is it correct ?

I don't know why, but Apple has been keeping us supplied with QuickTime 7 for several years now. For one thing, it dies so much more. Maybe because I paid the reg fee years ago for "Pro" ... but open it and see what you've got. Mine can do Save As and record and edit and all sorts of other things.

And it does intall in Utilities. Same as Snow Leopard.

u just drag an app from the applications folder onto the launch pad dock icon. easy.

I see that any non-Apple application you install in Utilities is never scanned. Even dragging it onto the Launchpad icon in the Dock won't make it create an icon. I like to put utilities like Carbon Copy Cloner there (they are utilities, after all!) and they never show up. Also, XQuartz flat out installs itself into Utilities (since it is an X11 replacement and that is where the original X11 application goes). XQuartz never shows up in Launchpad, either.

If you have QuickTime 7, it is because you already had it installed in Snow Leopard when you did the Lion upgrade. I did a clean install from a USB boot disk I made with Disk Utility and I don't have QuickTime 7 installed.

Any application dragged to the icon will go onto launchpad. If it comes from the Utilities folder it will be placed in a box called Utilities automagically. That's what it does on all the machines here. If not working on yours, I recommend following the procedure documented here and elsewhere to flush the launchpad DB and start over. Good luck.

OH MY gosh- thank you. I thought 1/2 mine were missing too- I'm such a newb! 🙂

That is the problem for me, it creates more work...

Seems that this is not always right. In my Applications folder is among others Amnesia. It doesn't show up in Launchpad, not even if I drag the app from the Applications folder to the Launchpad icon in the dock. Launchpad seems to not accept Amnesia.