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launch pad duplicate app removal.

You have to find the app in applications and then trash it. You can not trash it in launch pad. I had same prblem but found that since I do not use iChat I had put it in a folder marked "rarely used aps. When I trashed it from this folder the only working I chat icon was left in launch pad.

The computers Latest iMac and Macbook pro are great.

willymack
 
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