(You can not select "System" as a user via the Get Info UI and I don't know how to do it from the command line. So if you know how to make the owner of a folder "System," you can, if I'm right, create a folder in the /Applications path the contents of which Launchpad will never see. (Because of permissions, I actually had to copy/delete, but same difference.) The owner of Utilities is "System" which is perhaps why it acts differently with Launchpad. I had to move them to Applications to make them show up in Launchpad, after which I just move them back and Launchpad continued to see them and launch them properly. I discovered this when I installed some apps directly into that folder and couldn't find them in Launchpad. Put the other apps folder where you want it and put any new apps there.Īnother note: While Apple apps in the /Applications/Utilities folder are already added to Launchpad, other items in the Utilities folder are not. The deleted apps are removed from Launchpad and the only ones left are those in the /Applications (and ~/Applications) folder path. Then, go in to /Applications, select the apps you DO NOT want in Launchpad (or Select All and cmd-click the apps you DO want in Launchpad), drag them to the Trash and empty it.
As a variation on the suggestion above, just copy your entire Applications folder to a different location and then delete the copied items that you DO want in Launchpad. If you've already upgraded to Lion, the solution is actually pretty simple. With proper planning prior to upgrading to Lion, the user could, with fairly little trouble, relocate the apps they don't want in Launchpad and they will never show up there. (That path includes ~/Applications.) This suggests a number of possibilities for limiting the apps in Launchpad. Go figure!Īpps which never appear in the /Applications folder path will never appear in Launchpad. The workaround there, is to drag them to the original Applications folder, then to the Trash, then back to Applications2. 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. That was a big step to clean up the Launchpad. Then I created a folder called Applications2 and moved them all out of the Trash to there. So I emptied my Trash, and then moved most of my Apps to the Trash.
You can not move Apps to folders or the Desktop from the /Applications folder, but you can move them to the Trash. Not one of my Apps had an X to delete it with the Option Key down. Having very many applications, my default Launchpad was a complete mess with little options for cleaning it up.
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