Purchased Apps cant be found but do launch ?!

tldr: App's installed trough the app store cant be found, not in finder (or alfred / terminal), not in applications folder, they are however integrated in the launchpad?!
Hi and thanks for reading,
I did a clean install on my MacBook after having sold my iMac so i wouldn't have to bother with old or duplicate file's and so i would have just one working station with a fresh clean install. it's a late 2013 model 15" pro, on the latest Yosemite.
Having re-installed my favourite apps and hand selected files / images / music / gems / etc. i noticed that my favourite way of launching apps didn't worked any more! Launching apps trough cmd-space action was always my to go short cut, it saved me a lot off time not having to leave the keyboard.
cmd+space "search phrase" == no result?
All apps like Pages, Numbers, Pocket, Keynote, etc. is installed with App store.
Using cmd+space i can launch and find Numbers and Keynote
Using cmd+space i can not find or launch Pocket or Pages.
With launchpad i can find (all) Pages / Numbers
Witch Applications folder i can find Numbers and Keynote, but not Pages or Pocket, although they are installed in the same time with Numbers and Keynote.
What i tried:
- checked the finder setting, application folder, trash bin.
- I removed and reinstalled all app's bought with the app store                               x no-solution
- signed oud, deleted the apps, restarted, signed back in, downloaded again        x no-solution
- rebuilding the finder spotlight-v100 with mdutil                                                      x no-solution
- find Pages.app with grep / find / locate   (in terminal)                                            x no-result ( while it still launches.. )
i'm kinda stuck here now after googling and searching for to long of a period.
What could possibly be wrong here?
Appreciate all help and response
Greets Theo

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