How To Remove Items or Applications From The MacOS X Lion 10.7 Launchpad
3 februarie 2012, 05:26pm
There are times when one or more applications are being copied to the Launchpad without you actually knowing they were already there, so now you end up having duplicates.
Sure, that's not a problem by itself, however it's somewhat of a difficulty giving that the same application appears one or more times in there and just takes up all that space. There is a simple way to remove items and/or applications from the Launchpad - I had used it with some duplicate applications that used to be there under MacOS Lion (functionality confirmed in Lion 10.7.2 and 10.7.3; may also work with previous releases).
Step 1. Open up a terminal (from /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app).
Step 2. Copy and paste the following command:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db "DELETE from apps WHERE title='YOUR_APPLICATION_TITLE_GOES_HERE'" && killall dock
Important: You need to paste that command aş a single line. Do not worry if the docking window will disappear for a moment, it will reappear back shortly. And, of course, you need to replace the "YOUR_APPLICATION_TITLE_GOES_HERE" with the actual name of the application you wish to remove from the Launchpad.
A similar principle applies to groups in the Launchpad. Simply replace the "DELETE from apps ..." text with "DELETE from groups ..." in the command above to remove the chosen groups.
