Previously I can remove the files end with db in ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/ to reset the ordering of apps, but now doing the same thing doesn’t help. Do anyone know where the new path that organizes the Launchpad is located?
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Enter this line in the console:
defaults -currentHost write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock
Removing the db doesn't seem to do the trick any more. So this two steps are necessary to reset the Launchpad in Yosemite:
- rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db ; killall Dock
- defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock
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5Killing Dock once is enough from my try:
rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db; defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall DockCommented Oct 19, 2014 at 12:11 -
this does not work anymore either– user14391Commented Aug 23, 2015 at 17:02
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it seems that simply
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dockwill do now.– jackxujhCommented Sep 27, 2019 at 6:33
rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db
rm "/$TMPDIR../0/com.apple.dock.launchpad/db/db*"
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock
Here Launchpad resets, when deleting the three database files in...
/private/var/folders/02/yff1cxtx61v3y1pydkt96j2h0000gn/0/com.apple.dock.launchpad/db/db
/private/var/folders/02/yff1cxtx61v3y1pydkt96j2h0000gn/0/com.apple.dock.launchpad/db/db-shm
/private/var/folders/02/yff1cxtx61v3y1pydkt96j2h0000gn/0/com.apple.dock.launchpad/db/db-wal
...and restarting the Dock: killall Dock
I get there by opening
open $TMPDIR../0/com.apple.dock.launchpad/db/
Starting in Yosemite, simply running killall Dock wont always cut it when altering your defaults.
In Yosemite the defaults are now cached in two separate persistent processes called cfprefsd; one owned by you, $USER, and the other owned by root, so you essentially need to restart these processes.
You can verify this by opening up Activity Monitor.app and searching for cfprefsd
(There can actually be more than two of these process in some circumstances, not to worry though!)
I added the following one liner to my shell profile of choice (.zshrc) so that it is easily available to me anytime by just typing fixpref, but you also can just cut out the good parts to use it once!
TL;DR:
#!/bin/bash
# Clear defaults caches, reload them, and then kill everything!
alias fixpref='sudo killall -SIGKILL cfprefsd && killall Dock && killall Finder'
