How to preserve preferences in LaunchPad?

I recently got a new MacBook Pro & used Migration Assistant. It worked flawlessly. In the past I have opted to install everything fresh by re-installing applications & dragging anything I wanted from the old Mac to the new one using an external drive. Migration Assistant saved me literally hours, if not days; and it worked nearly flawlessly.
However, there was one thing that did not work correctly. Now I know that most people don't really use LaundPad; and I don't really launch applications that way most of the time. I typically use Alfred as a launcher. However, I do like to keep my apps organized by type in LaunchPad. I won't bore you with the details, as I"m sure they are peculiar and not applicable to most people. This brings me to my question. Even though Migration Assistant did such an excellent job of bringing everything else over, it did not preserve the folders I had set up in LaunchPad nor the organizaiton of the applications in any way that I can see.
Is there a way to do that for the future? If I had copied the LaunchPad preference file from the old Mac to the new one, would that be the answer. If so, which files?
THANKS.

If the icon shows a question mark in the middle when you click on it then the alias is gone and all you need to do is drag the icon to the trash.
If the icon still launches the app then you have an active icon. Launchpad will find virtually all apps or app alias files on your system.
It too me several minutes to find and delete all of my redundant ...alias icons. It would have taken much longer but I had almost all of my alias files stored in stacks. Delete the stack folder and the icons weren't active. Drag them to the trash and the icons are gone.

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