Two Skype icon after last update

You either have two copies of Skype lurking about, or you have a Skype Alias somewhere. Search for them with Spotlight or Command F, and delete the extra one.

Highlight the one you don't want and delete it.

How comfortable are you with the command line? I just updated Skype and deleted my 2nd icon. I had to use sqlite.

The Skype auto-updated creates that 2nd Skype and then deletes the old one. LaunchPad is left with 2 icons.

Same here 2 icons in Launchpad, only one showing up in spotlight search!

1. Run Terminal
2. Type

   ls -altr ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db

3. Open the last file with sqlite3:

   sqlite3 "/Users/<you>/Library/Application Support/Dock/<some big long number>.db"

4. In SQLite type:

   select * from apps where title = 'Skype';

5. You should have two items listed like this:

   num1|Skype|com.skype.skype||9|330297564.0|bookh
   num2|Skype|com.skype.skype||9|333549403.0|bookh

6. Pick the 2nd one and type:

   delete from apps where item_id = num2;

7. Now type:

   delete from item where item_id = num2;

8. Exit SQLite by typing:

   .quit

9. Run Activity Monitor
10. Find "Dock", select it, and click the Quit Process button.

Now you should have only a single Skype icon. You should be able to repeat the above process for any self-updating application you didn't get from the Mac App Store.

The above procedure could easily corrupt your LaunchPad database. Use at your own risk.

Yes, but then you will have to rearrange every icon and group in LaunchPad again. It would be a better idea to restore he ~/Application Support/Dock directory from backup.

It happened to me as well after the last upgrade and i fixed it with a "windows-like" trick:

1) move skype from your application folder to somewhere else (i put it on my desktop)

2) open lounchpad and you should see only one skype icon. close lounchpad

3) put skype where it was

at the end of this i still had only one skype icon in my lunchpad.

Well done Purpleshift,

Worked perfect.