10.7: Remove items from Launchpad
Jul 27, '11 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: Bruno6
Although this is not really an easy way of doing this, I've decided to share this hint, because the impossibility to remove anything from Launchpad was really annoying me.
Use this hint at your own risk! Be sure to have some kind of backup available.
Here's how:
- Using Launchpad, create a group of items named 'Trash' and fill it with the shortcuts you're wishing to remove.
- Unhide your 'library folder' (See this previous hint, or use your favorite method).
- Backup your Launchpad database located in ~/Library/Application Support/Dock.
- Download any sqllite query editor (Navicat Lite is very good and free).
- Open the Launchpad database with Navicat.
- Run the following query:
delete
from
items
where exists (
select
i.rowid
from
items as i inner join
groups on i.parent_id=groups.item_id
where
groups.title like 'Trash' and
items.rowid = i.rowid
)
Remarks:
The database is taking care of data consistency via triggers (triggers will remove images caches and reorder items).
The good point is that the (now empty) 'Trash' group will remain.
[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. As mentioned in the hint, please be careful and have a backup handy before trying this. I have to say, Launchpad is one of those features I'm kind of 'meh' over. I have no interest in reorganizing the thousand-plus applications I've got into folders again. Maybe on a new machine.]
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