Hi everybody,
I am helplessly OCD-anal when it comes to my Mac and annoyed that I recently, after having restored my system from a time machine backup, had to fully organize Launchpad from scratch again (sort and re-arrange all the apps, put them in the correct folders etc.). As this already happened to me for the second time – can anybody here give me a hint for the future what the best way is to also import the Launchpad together with the time machine backup? Can I simply manually overwrite one or two Launchpad db files on my freshly restored system with old data my backup? Or should I try to use a 3rd party program like www.http://launchpadmanager.com this to save and restore my settings?
I really don't understand why Apple doesn't include the Launchpad organization to the Time Machine backup - to me it's like ignoring as if it would ignore how I customized my Dock and put it back to default. To be honest, at first I thought it was a bug and/or reset because I changed to a different screen size/resolution with the new computer. I really hope Apple will have fixed this by the time the Yosemite successor is released. (Same goes with the notification settings, by the way, which also aren't transfered with Time Machine, at least not here.)
I am helplessly OCD-anal when it comes to my Mac and annoyed that I recently, after having restored my system from a time machine backup, had to fully organize Launchpad from scratch again (sort and re-arrange all the apps, put them in the correct folders etc.). As this already happened to me for the second time – can anybody here give me a hint for the future what the best way is to also import the Launchpad together with the time machine backup? Can I simply manually overwrite one or two Launchpad db files on my freshly restored system with old data my backup? Or should I try to use a 3rd party program like www.http://launchpadmanager.com this to save and restore my settings?
I really don't understand why Apple doesn't include the Launchpad organization to the Time Machine backup - to me it's like ignoring as if it would ignore how I customized my Dock and put it back to default. To be honest, at first I thought it was a bug and/or reset because I changed to a different screen size/resolution with the new computer. I really hope Apple will have fixed this by the time the Yosemite successor is released. (Same goes with the notification settings, by the way, which also aren't transfered with Time Machine, at least not here.)