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Mavericks Launchpad, missing icons

I used a Launchpad editor program on 10.8.5 and earlier, and it worked great. Unfortunately now I have no icons on any of my Launchpad items. I tried the reset command from the editor to no avail. Anyone find a Launchpad editor that works with Mavericks?

OS X Mavericks (10.9), * Links may give me compensation

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 8:34 AM

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Cool4A

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Mar 25, 2014 10:16 AM in response to Idummi3

thank you!! it saves my live!!

ptch3456

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Apr 19, 2014 9:40 AM in response to Idummi3

Thank you - The below worked perfectly for me in Terminal. (I didn't have the Dock folder in Application Support)

mv ~/L*/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db ~/Desktop; killall Dock; exit

Sep 24, 2014 12:48 PM in response to a brody

I had the same problem as well, and I found a way to fix it, but not knowing a permanent fix or a temp one.

Boot into os in safe mode: hold down SHIFT while booting up, login and see if the icons are there. If icons are there then log out and restart the computer in normal mode and the problem should be fixed.

P.S. While using safe mode booting, the time it takes to boot, load, login and out and restart will take significantly longer then usual, please be patient and let it do all the steps before you do anything else.

Mar 12, 2015 7:36 PM in response to Christopher_Pang

Thanks Christopher_Pang only your solution worked.

My dock just had a bunch of images that looked like TV static where the icons were. The only thing that worked was booting into safe mode as detailed above.

The terminal command to killall Dock and booting from the recovery partition & repairing the disk and the volume, Did not work.

Mavericks Launchpad, missing icons