Strange app
I have a launchpad app that is acting very strange.
I can't move it to another page and the icon that it had before has changed to a new unknown icon (at least to me).
What is going on and how do I fix this?
BF
Have you tried just rebooting the computer?
If that doen't help, there's two ways I can think of might solve this problem, depending on whether the fault lies with the app or with Launchpad.
One is delete the app and re-install it.
If that isn't possible (or doesn't work), you can reset launchpad back to default by pasting this command into Terminal:
rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db; killall Dock
Be aware that using this command means any special folders or organisation you've created in launchpad will be lost.
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