Installed alacarte menu editor, deleted "Install Elementary OS" icon, now when I try to search for an application, it crashes. I also did an update & upgrade, so that may have caused it too perhaps.

Which logs should I paste here for help? I found a bug report here but no fixes yet. Except deleting vim.desktop from ~/.local/share/applications which didn't exist for me. However I did delete ~/usr/share/applications/vim.desktop , which did nothing. Oh and I had like 5 desktop files in that same dir for chrome , delete all them, did nothing.