10.7: Cleaning up the Launchpad

Jul 27, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: RBD2

Having very many applications, my default Launchpad was a complete mess with little options for cleaning it up. Not one of my Apps had an X to delete it with the Option Key down. It would have taken hours to clean up.

You can not move Apps to folders or the Desktop from the /Applications folder, but you can move them to the Trash. So I emptied my Trash, and then moved most of my Apps to the Trash.

Then I created a folder called Applications2 and moved them all out of the Trash to there. That was a big step to clean up the Launchpad.

I then added some more Apps from the new folder but dropping them on the Launchpad, but later I found out that I could not delete those from the Launchpad either. The workaround there, is to drag them to the original Applications folder, then to the Trash, then back to Applications2. Go figure!

[crarko adds: As with today's other Launchpad hint, one gets this feeling the feature is best used on a new, fairly minimalist system. The iOS metaphor is fine for a hundred or so applications, but gets really tedious with substantially more than that, unless you've built it up that way from the beginning.]

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