Launchpad: How to delete items with ? icon

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Launchpad: How to delete items with ? icon

As I was paging through Launchpad, I noticed that there were a number of apps with a ? displayed as their icon, which I figured meant that they were no longer in my Applications directory. This assumption proved true as I looked there and these apps were no longer there. Which is fine as I periodically do some housecleaning.

So I'd like to know how to remove those slots from Launchpad, or how to delete and rebuild Launchpad's database so that it accurately reflects the apps in /Applications.

I'm fine using Terminal if it's needed.

Running OSX 10.10.1 on a late 2012 Mac Mini.

Thanks!

-Tod

Posted on Nov 24, 2014 2:49 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 24, 2014 4:02 PM in response to richard3

Most excellent advice, Richard3! This terminal command did the trick:

defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -boolean true && killall -HUP Dock

and I've added it to my tip list.

Thank you for providing the link.

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Answer 2

richard3

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Nov 24, 2014 4:00 PM in response to TodFromIndiana

See the thread Launchpad resets itself after update to Yosemite.

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