Is there a way to re-organise Launchpad

I am trying to assess whether to retain the Apps icon at the RH end of the Dock or go with Launchpad. I cannot see a way to organise Launchpad in the same manner that the Apps folder is organised. Has anyone found a way?

Hi, easy way to organise by name: you can automatically sort LaunchPad. It's just a bit of a roundabout way, you reset LaunchPad then when it rebuilds it will put Apple apps in one screen, then alphabetically sort all other apps in remaining screens. Check out: http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/01/refresh-launchpad-in-mac-os-x-10-7-lion/

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Is there a way to edit/manage Launchpad?

is there a way to show the apps and a list, mark them into groups, and then move them into folders?
I like the idea of Launchpad, but this isn't my iPad where I have a few apps that I use all the time.
I have approximately 300 apps ... many of them farily useless things that came with packages (e.g. the Adobe utilities that come with Creative Suite, or the updaters that World of Warcraft uses).
Drag and drop takes forever ... you can only move one app at a time. (And dropping an app into a folder that's at the end of a line is a little game all itself.)
And then once they're in the folders, there's no way to tell which is where. I have 5 screens of folders ... and there's a lot of flipping around involved in finding something that I haven't used recently.
It would also be nice to be able to mark some of the folders as "hidden", since they contain apps that I will likely never use.
To be honest, I'm starting to think that this isn't going to work. The Finder's "Recents" lists get me to about 70% of everything I need, and searching Finder windows seems faster than LaunchPad.

Thank you ... unfortunately, I've already used those.
You can't put folders in folders ... so there's no hierarchy. And you can only put ... it looks like 32 files in a folders ... so you need "Folder1, Folder2, etc. for categories."
I've had time to read some other posts, and I think I get it now. The Applications Folder is hard to look at because it has so many entries. And if you create your own subfolders, it messes up some programs.
So ... Launchpad is a collection of aliases.
I think that's a good idea, but right now it's just a big pile of icons. There needs to be a way to organize it ... and the current one-level folder mechanism just isn't sophisticated enough.
So thanks again ... I'm going to just stop trying to use Launchpad and stick with my old way of doing things for now. Maybe Apple will improve it later.

Is there a way i can organise my apps in itunes?

Hi, I'm pretty sure i've looked everywhere in itunes to see if there is a way to organise the thousands of iOS Apps I have but so far I cannot see one. Can someone shed light on how to best organise apps so that you can for example, put games you like in one place, apps you don't like in another, as well as add them to an iOS device from these organised categories (ie: I'd like to create a category that I would just dump to all my iOS devices)...
It seems very painful to scroll through 1000s of applications in a tiny tiny window that I cannot make full screen or eliminate things I don't want to look at 'now' and then have to do this many times separately for every iOS device I have. Basically my iTunes is totally useless as it is unless I want to spend 12 hours for each device...
I am not asking how to organise them on the iOS device itself via iTunes - even with 16 files per folder that itself is painful, but not as painful as having to deal with iTunes as already stated.
offtopic: is there a way in iTunes I can show only free things? I do buy things, but I want to see free things only on occasions - such as in search results.
Any suggestions? (my devices are not jailbroken and have no wish to, so please suggest things that work on non-jailbroken devices thanks)

zhulien wrote:
Hi, I'm pretty sure i've looked everywhere in itunes to see if there is a way to organise the thousands of iOS Apps I have but so far I cannot see one. Can someone shed light on how to best organise apps
You cannot.
It seems very painful to scroll through 1000s of applications in a tiny tiny window
Delete the apps you don't use and don't get every single app in the store.

Is there a way to query organisational hierarchy via webservices / IMS API?

Hi,
I'm trying to figure it out for a while but with no success... What I'd like to do is getting information on organisational hierarchy (a user's subordinates) via either the WS API or the IMS / SCORM one...
Is there a way to do this?
thanks
peter

I haven't heard of a way to do this. A persons manager is being stored, but as far as I know the whole hierarchy is being build when needed.
Anders

Is there a way to adjust the settings on launchpad so that when I swipe into it all the open apps/pages are fully separated (like in exposé) so that I can fully view all of them simultaneously?

Hi Apple community,
This is my first go at this so be kind,
My question concerns launchpad. Coming from Snow Leopard I had been using spaces. I like to keep certain bundles of programs on separate desktops, for example all word processing related tasks in one place. I have set up the equivalent on Yosemite.
My problem is concerns the loss of exposé. Now I know when you swipe into launch pad you get a very similar effect but the issue I am having concerns the "zoom out" effect when you swipe into launchpad. With exposé all open apps/pages etc would be fully exposed - in my case several (sometimes as many as 9 word documents). What I am running into is when I do this in / into launch pad the "pile" of docs is exposed but they are still overlapping so I can't get a good look at which is which and visually identify where I want to navigate to.
My question is this; Is there a way to adjust the settings on launchpad so that when I swipe into it all the open apps/pages are fully separated (like in exposé) so that I can fully view all of them simultaneously? If so, instructions on how to do so would be greatly appreciated. Any alternative suggestions to doing this outside of launchpad are also welcome. If there is an exposé app for example, I would be quite willing to go that route.
My main concern is being able to quickly (ie a touchpad gesture) expand all the open pages so I can bounce between them.
Much thanks from a loyal Apple friend.

Hey Eric,
Thanks for taking the time. Unfortunately no that does not solve it. Same as swipe it will get me there and it will show separate programs spaced out. The issue I am having is that all my open word files are bunched up in a pile on top of each other. I can see the edges of each one but I want them to be separated from each other enough that I can visually identify what file is what.
Again, thanks for trying, it is appreciated.

TS3048 Is there a way to "calibrate" the magic mouse? I have rearranged settings for mouse, air-cleaned, tried different surfaces, however, it seems to be misinterpreting finger movements and randomly trying to open launchpad when enabled.

Is there a way to "calibrate" the magic mouse? Batteries are good. I have rearranged settings for mouse, air-cleaned, tried different surfaces, however, it seems to be misinterpreting finger movements and randomly trying to open launchpad when enabled-flashing between the app I am in and launchpad. When right-click is enabled I have to go to the extreme upper left of mousepad to click or it is interpreted as right-click. Won't consistently "scroll". Suggestions?

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Reset your computer's PRAM
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.7/en/mh26871.html
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455

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You cannot put music onto your iPod without using iTunes, that what iTunes is for.
It's also not a good idea to wipe the music from your computer and having it only on your iPod. We see countless posts here from people who have done just that - and then lost everything when the iPod needs a Restore. Even if you never need to Restore your iPod, what happens when you eventually replace the iPod? You'll be back here asking how to get the music from one iPod to another. That's not easy to do, we see countless posts about that too!
A much better idea is to buy an external drive (a proper external drive, not simply an iPod) and put your large amount of music onto that drive. Then point your iTunes Library to that drive. However, you need to remember two things:
You still need a backup of that Library.
Using an external drive as your iTunes Library means that the drive must be connected and ready to read before starting your iTunes programme. If it isn't, then iTunes will look on the C: drive - and you will find no music in your Library. (Once again, lots of posts about that as well!)

Is there a way to control brightness in launchpad?

Is there a way to control brightness in launchpad? I have two administrative accounts, one in English and the other in Japanese because I sometimes need to install Japanese language software that requires this. The strange thing is that the launchpad screens are very dark in this second account, and I have not been able to correct this. Any suggestions?
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I upgraded from v3 to v6. Firefox Sync lost hundreds of my bookmarks - it kept all the organised ones, but lost all the unsorteds. I'm now facing an inquiry at work, and could cheerfully kill Mozilla. However, is there any way to fix this?

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I have an Apple MacBook Pro and when surfing the web my computer will slow to a crawl and I will have a multi-colored spinning wheel visible until my latest request is handled. What is causing this and is there a way to prevent this from occuring

I have a MacBook Pro. When surfing the web it will eventually slow to a crawl. When this occurs, there will be a small multi-colored wheel spinning until my latest command is handled. What is causing this and is there a way that I can modify or prevent this from happening? Is there a setting that will prevent this?

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If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
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from the menu bar.
Scroll back in the log to the time you noted above. Select any messages timestamped from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

My itunes account was disabled for some reason. I changed password in iforgot and still didn't work. I could log in but not make purchases from the store so I set up a new login/account . Is there any way to move my music to the new account?

My itunes account was disabled for some reason. I changed password in iforgot and still didn't work. I could log in and see my music but not make purchases from the store or even redeem an itunes gift card so I set up a new login/account with another email account of mine. On the new account I can redeem my gift card and download items onto my ipad2. Is there any way to move my music to the new account?

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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Is there a way to get the screen saver on user "a" to use iphoto pictures from user "b"?

Is there a way to have the iphoto screen saver use the photos from a different iphoto user? My husband leaves his account open and he has only old photos when the screen saver kicks in. I would like to have my photos be able to pop up on his screen saver. I need to find them in the system preferences screen saver place, but have it access my iphotos and not only his. How? Also, I would like a better system on organizing my photos.. I have them all in events by year and it is difficult of often find favorite specfic photos. Thank you. Melody

In short, no. The whole point of different accounts is to keep your data separate from his, and your photos are your data.
You could share a library? It can be a bit complex.
You can use Fast-User switching to switch over to your account - takes a couple of seconds
As to organising your Photos - iPhoto is a database and offers pretty much unlimited options for organising your pics, but it takes a bit of work to go beyond the basic and automatic.
If you take the time to assign Places then you cn see all the photos in your Library based on where they were taken. (Of course, that's of limited use if they're all taken in your backyard ) Faces means you can sort the Library based on who's in the Photos.
Beyond that, simple thigns like naming the Events will help - Xmas 11, Bobby's Wedding, Rome 2009 and so on. You can then search on those basic words in the search box.
After that: Keywording. The following is a canned answer I use to describe my system. It may spark some ideas for you.
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I keyword on a
Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
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File -> New Smart Album
set it to 'All"
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keyword is mountain
keyword is snow
rating is 5 stars
Or, want a chronological album of John from birth to today?
New Smart Album
Keyword is John
Set the View options to Sort By Date Ascending
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add Rating is greater than 4 stars
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Problem: there will be many users from various organisations -> creating users manually on the server is not an option.
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Hy, I'm thinking of purchasing iTunes Match to make it a bit easier to share our different libraries. I have read the issues about about multiple apple ID's etc. My main issue however is that I take great care to have an organised Library with correct metadata (names, album art, etc). My family however does not and apart from when I want to download a certain song from them I really don't want to have their whole "messed up" library to show up. Is there a way to do that? I'm okay with activating and deactivating it but I've also read that some people had some problems with that and had to wait 90 days before they could reactivate the account.
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