Reset Launchpad

[seattle29]

In Mavericks, you could reset the Launchpad by entering the following in Terminal:

rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db ; killall Dock

The purpose being, if you installed lots of new applications, it would update them alphabetically in Launchpad so they weren't at the end of the list.

The command doesn't work in Yosemite, so has the path to the *.db file changed?

Anyone can help? Thanks

 

[Intelligent]

In Mavericks, you could reset the Launchpad by entering the following in Terminal:



The purpose being, if you installed lots of new applications, it would update them alphabetically in Launchpad so they weren't at the end of the list.

The command doesn't work in Yosemite, so has the path to the *.db file changed?

Anyone can help? Thanks

just run this

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock

Back the file up before though.

 

[MarvinK9]

just run this

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock

Back the file up before though.

That doesn't work either. All it did was reset my desktop background.

 

[Intelligent]

That doesn't work either. All it did was reset my desktop background.

How about this

 rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/LaunchPadLayout.plist

I also said that you should backup before, you lost your background because of the desktoppicture.db file.

Maybe the file is locked? Try pressing  or

(command) + ⇧ (shift) + G and type this

~/Library/Application Support/Dock/
and look for that file.
When you found it just mark it and ctrl click/right click and click "see info" or just

+ I
Or just go there manually by pressing "Go" in finder while holding alt and you will see "library" press that and look for the file called Application Support and go into dock.

Sorry/or not for explaining it so by detail, i dont know how much you know about computers etc. so if I'm wrong then excuse me.

Or try this

chflags nouchg ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/LaunchPadLayout.plist

then run the rm -rf command i provided you with earlier.

 

[MarvinK9]

Deleting files doesn't help. I found a working solution here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1758631/