Launchpad app icons keep moving

Yea, I seem to have the same problem however only the icons on the bottom half of launchpad seem to move and not the top half... Has anyone found a fix?

Same here... launchpad might actually be useful if it didn't keep reorganising apps. The default Apple apps remain in place on the first page, its just the second page containing third-part apps that keep moving randomly at each reboot.

Is there a fix for this?

this is happening to me too. a little too many bugs in lion for my liking.

I don't think there is a fix for this, and it's almost futile at this point to rearrange the icons. best to wait for 10.7.3 or greater...

Same here. Quite annoying not finding your app's icon on it's usual place.

At least with me, it appears the icons rearrange themselves based on app usage. If I use one app more than the others, it gets promoted in the hierarchy (top left being the top).

Has anyone else noticed this?

Yes, I'm having the same problem. I am yet to see if it is re-arranging according to how frequently I use an app, but it definitely is annoying. I have stopped re-arranging them now. Waiting for a fix in perhaps 10.7.2+.

Icons moved a lot after initial Lion installation.

Talked to Apple Care. Reinstalled Lion. Icons moved a little less.

Installed Lion update. Icons moved a little late, but still annoying.

Couldn't find a lot on the interweb machines on the topic. But found this discussion and this...

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20087145-263/how-to-reset-and-manage-the-os -x-10.7-launchpad-interface/

Used the suggestion in the last paragraph and, fingers crossed, they aren't moving. This took a lot of work due to starting from scratch.

I'm having the same exact problem, but I'd rather not clear out the SQLite database and start over, as Gooster's CNet article suggests.

Icons are moving on their own for me as well. I have the first MBA with Lion preinstalled. Software currently up to date (10.7.1). The icons rearrange themselve in no particular order, but always remain on the same page. They are not alphabetical, size, date, use, name, company, type, etc. Just random.

10.7.2 GM is not fixing this problem. It's driving me nuts! It's a day full of disappointments. Better get use to the Apple without Steve Jobs.

I was having the same annoying problem. For the first month, all of my icons would load where I left them. Suddenly, a few days back they started picking their own random places.

I attempted the fix noted above: Navigated to the library/application support/dock and deletd the database file (extension .db). This reset the launchpad and created a new .db in its place.

The reset forced me to relocate all of the icons, but since doing that, the random rearranging has ceased. It seems to work, at least temporarily. I am not sure what caused it to start happening in the first place.

2011 - MBA - 10.7.1

I still have the icons automaticaly moving in Launchpad in Mac OS X 10.7.2 😟

This is still happening in 10.7.2 and it is the most annoying aspect of Lion for me. I love Launchpad and I have arranged it very nicely but each time I reboot my icons rearrange themselves. Lion constantly discourages me from keeping any kind of organization for Launchpad. I miss the days when things "just worked." This is just unacceptable coming from Apple. I have better expectations of them than this.

known issue! send feedback to apple about this.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

then they will address it.