[bdfu]

Originally Posted by Blondini

Well I think I screwed up, I just upgraded to 3.0.1 re-jailbroke and all is ok except I forgot to delete the apps from categories before the upgrade so I now can't see any of them, is there anyway to get them back please?

Thanks Nick

There is a real easy way to make all your hidden apps visible again. Just go to Settings->General and enable Restrictions, then disable them again. Poof! Everything is visible.

[Photonboy]

Originally Posted by Blondini

Well I think I screwed up, I just upgraded to 3.0.1 re-jailbroke and all is ok except I forgot to delete the apps from categories before the upgrade so I now can't see any of them, is there anyway to get them back please?

Thanks Nick

I had the same problem. The Categories app hides each app you add to it, which is a good thing since that's the whole point; to clean up your springboard. There are a couple of ways to see your apps again. I used the SBSettings app. It has a "Hide Icons" category. Inside it I saw a list of all of my apps. Next to each one is an On/Off switch. Sure enough, the ones I couldn't see were toggled off. I toggled them on, restarted the springboard and they were all visible again.

[bdfu]

Originally Posted by Photonboy

I had the same problem. The Categories app hides each app you add to it, which is a good thing since that's the whole point; to clean up your springboard. There are a couple of ways to see your apps again. I used the SBSettings app. It has a "Hide Icons" category. Inside it I saw a list of all of my apps. Next to each one is an On/Off switch. Sure enough, the ones I couldn't see were toggled off. I toggled them on, restarted the springboard and they were all visible again.

That's a good option for one or two apps. I have 456 apps and (obviously) most of them are hidden. To show them all, all at once, use the "restrictions" trick.

[Photonboy]

Originally Posted by bdfu

I have 456 apps...

Reminds me of this time I was on Napster, back in the day, and some guy mentioned he had like 500,000 songs. My thought was 1.) Are you nuts? 2.) You need some sunshine, pronto. What in the hell are you going to do with 456 apps? That's insane. I don't think I'm going out on a limb here in suggesting that the vast majority of people have like 20 or 30, tops. In which case SBSettings makes the most sense. It allows you to choose each app you want to see or not see.

PS. No offense intended, I write like I would talk to my buddies over a beer..

Peace

[bdfu]

Originally Posted by Photonboy

Reminds me of this time I was on Napster, back in the day, and some guy mentioned he had like 500,000 songs. My thought was 1.) Are you nuts? 2.) You need some sunshine, pronto. What in the hell are you going to do with 456 apps? That's insane. I don't think I'm going out on a limb here in suggesting that the vast majority of people have like 20 or 30, tops. In which case SBSettings makes the most sense. It allows you to choose each app you want to see or not see.

PS. No offense intended, I write like I would talk to my buddies over a beer..

Peace

No offense taken. I talk the same way about Facebook or Twitter friends. If you have 500 friends, they are not your "friends".

Just the same, I am a developer and do a lot of competitive analysis. I download them, check them out and either disable them in iTunes or file them in Categories. After all, you can only have 11 pages of apps on your Springboard - which translates to 180 ((11 * 16) + 4 in your dock).

BEFORE updating I usually turn all my apps off in iTunes. It makes the process go faster. (I also turn off all my music & videos.)

AFTER updating I load things as needed.

BUT Categories remembers all those invisibility settings - so I always apply the "Restrictions" trick.

By starting over each time I weed out the stuff I'm never going to use again - and sometimes I actually PAY for the ones I do!

Years ago when I was at Apple, we had a pirate flag on top of our building. I guess I've never really let go of that.

[ny888]

My Categories pages after I enter the folder has a black background with just a tiny bit of my SB wallpaper on it. Should it just use my SB Wallpaper or is there another image file that it uses?