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Delete and rebuild LaunchPad on Mac OS X to improve appearance and eliminate obsolete app icons
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launchpad-reset.md

####First - reset LaunchPad:

defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock

####Second - rebuild the database:

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


######tested with zsh 5.0.5 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0) on Apple MacBook Pro (Late 2011) running OS X 10.10.3

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# one liner:
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock; sleep 2; rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db; killall Dock
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