Too many apps in launchpad? One solution.....

I had a lot of apps in my Applications folder, mainly due to my Parallels Windows installs.
I fired up Launchpad after installing and I had over 10 screens of applications. Not very productive.
To counter that problem, I move applications out of my Applications folder into self defined folders out of the original folder.
I then used this tip to reload the Launchpad database and restart the Dock to soidify the changes:
http://haiteq.com/2011/07/07/quick-tip-force-os-x-lion-to-reload-the-launchpads- contents/
It worked for all of my Parallels Windows Applications that Launchpad found. I move them to another folder..way out of the Applications folder.
It worked! Only 4 screens of Mac apps!
I hope it helps people out.
Enjoy Lion OS X!

My greatest hope for Lion was Launchpad, and I'm utterly disappointed. It's a mess.
It should not be necssary to rejigger the Applications folder just so Launchpad isn't a collossal jumble. The idea that one should drag and drop an icon over 6 screens is ridiculous.
Only about 5 or 6 icons out of many dozens display the "x" that Apple Help says to click to remove the icon from Launchpad. Multiple copies of the same application icon appear in Launchpad, even though only one copy exists on the Mac drive. Application aliases appear in Launchpad with no way to delete them except to locate them on the hard drive.
And that is just in the first 10 mins. of stunned disillusionment.
It all makes me yearn for an old OS which didn't have wiggling icons but did allow the Applications folder to be organized with folders and displayed in the Finder as simply text.
Launchpad is a tacit admission that the Dock is inadequate (and was from Day One), but Launchpad is even worse.

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Okay, some more information about this.
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-mj
[email protected]

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