After upgraded to Yosemite, I rearranged my launchpad. Normally, when the last icon left the folder, the folder should disappear automatically. In fact, it did. But after I restart the computer, those empty folders appear again! I've try to restart it several times and those folders are still there...
Do you guys have this problem?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Just Relaunch your Launchpad
Open Terminal
Copy and paste this commands on your terminal and hit return at the end of each line
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true
killall Dock
hope that helps,
05202
I, too have had the same issue. As others have found, adding something to the folder, renaming, removing the item works ... until you reboot.
Had thought about re-setting it as urangBandang suggested - just was hoping for an easier option (having not long arranged things into folders). However, I think an empty folder annoys me more than extra rearranging!
There was another thread which suggested moving an app into the empty folder, renaming the folder, then removing the app. When I did this the empty folder disappeared. I have not rebooted yet but I noted some users indicated that the empty folder did came back after the reboot.
I'll find out
I Got the same problem.
Tried all the possible ways to remove, but it still comes back.
Yup I'm getting the same problem too. Is this a bug thats cropped up in Yosemite? If you pop an item back into that folder and then move it back it it'll delete the folder (as expected) but when you do a restart the blank folder will come back...
Having the same problem too. Never used to be an issue before but ever since updating to Yosemite I cannot delete empty folders. Pretty annoying...
Problem is the same when trying to delete empty folders from the dashboard's widgets section...
Yes, it one of the problems you can encounter using Launchpad at the moment. You can try to drag another app in the folder and empty the folder again. Sometimes that folder disappears, sometimes not.
There's a way to rebuild Launchpad but I won't not recommend that. It will bring Launchpad back in the default-setting, so you would have to start rearranging all over again, at the risk of having the same problems all over again.
So, just wait until the first update of Yosemite comes out. That might solve your problem. If the empty folders bother you, you could try to drag them to a new last page, so they are out of sight for now.
this works for me ~~
"
cd $(sudo find /private/var/folders -name com.apple.dock.launchpad)/db
sqlite3 db "SELECT * FROM groups;"
sqlite3 db "DELETE from groups WHERE title='Untitled';"
killall Dock
"
http://chirokhan.blogspot.jp/2014/11/launchpad-delete-empty-folder.html
This worked. However, be warned....30 minutes of sorting my launchpad.....this restored everything back to its original position. including the folder. basically...it just gave me another chance to get the items out of the folder and hope that Launchpad erased the folder itself properly the second time around....which it did. Well....back to resorting again. Thanks
I have the same problem...
Me as well, same problem
still no update until now?
I got rid of it with Mac-tool: YASU
Download it here: http://yasuapp.net
Succes, it worked for me!
Yasu was used with the default settings!
The Genius Bar couldn't figure this out. You sir solved the problem. Thank you.
Worked for me as well! Thank you!
Can't delete empty folders in launchpad..
