How to Refresh Launchpad in Mac OS X

How to Refresh Launchpad in Mac OS X

One-Line Terminal Command to Refresh Launchpad Contents in OS X

If you are comfortable with the command line, you can also do this entire process through the Terminal with the following commands:

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

Be sure to issue that command exactly as written, because the rm command is powerfuland will delete everything without asking, and * is a wildcard for any files matching the *.db name (meaning, anything that ends with .db).

If you want control over exactly what shows up in Launchpad rather than just creating a bunch of folders, use the third party System Preference Launchpad Control, it’s free and works as a sql frontend to the Launchpad database.

Again, this works in OS X 10.7, OS X 10.8, OS X 10.9, and newer.

Applying custom View settings to all folders at once

Applying custom View settings to all folders at once

Outlook 2010, 2013 and 2016: Copy View to other folders

Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 have a feature called “Apply Current View to Other Mail Folders” which allows you to copy the View of a folder to another folder without needing to make a View template first.

You can access this feature via;

tab View-> button Change View-> Apply Current View to Other Mail Folders…

When you select the top folder (enabled by default) and the option “Apply view to subfolders”, you’ll apply the View to all your mail folders at once.