One of my applications disappeared for no obvious reason from launchpad. I can still go to applications in finder and launch it, but I'd like to get it back in launchpad. How do I do it?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9), It disappeared from launchpad
After much searching and disappointment, I found the glorious solution:
Here is the terminal command to copy: rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db; killall Dock
See https://lucjano.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/apps-not-showing-in-launchpad/ for additional tips.
I created another account, standard user, and saw no difference. I deleted it including the home directory.
When I first got this macbook, I got everything working then read about creating another account as admin, and demoting myself to standard, and that's how things stand now. So I can log into the admin account or else put in the admin login to change certain things. The only issue I've had since changing from admin to standard is that now parallels shows red in the Activity Monitor and indicates "not responding" when, in fact, it is working OK except for being red and saying "not responding".
In any case, the admin account, and the test account I created for your test, do not indicate that they have library files in their home folders. Perhaps they are hidden, I don't know enough to check. Consequently I couldn't find another "Dock" directory with associated files. They must have existed, because the desktop backgrounds reverted to default.
So, I can't report any further progress, except to say it doesn't seem to be unique to my account.
I tried dragging the app icon from the ~\Applications\appfolder to the Launchpad icon on the dock, but it didn't seem to land in the Launchpad icon or do anything. Launchpad stayed the same. Too bad, that would have been a really elegant solution!
Thanks again Axeman1020 for all the ideas.
Dock reset, logout/in didn't change Launchpad.
Moving the .db files to the desktop, Dock reset, logout/in resulted in the same set of icons (the missing one was still missing) in a jumbled up order.
I moved the original db files back, did a Dock reset, and am back where I started, still missing the second Photoshop icon.
I'm sure that would work. However, Launchpad shows Bridge cs6 _and_ Bridge cc, while it only shows PS cc. Not really sure why, but I already have both Bridge and PS cc programs showing. I was trying to run the PS versions alternately to understand their differences. I simply started PS cs6 from the Applications directory.
In any case, I don't think it's worth spending more time on Launchpad, and I'm not yet ready to uninstall cs6.
Thanks anyway!
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