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Q: Dragging tabbed window leaves ghost?

OK, this is really more of an annoyance, but it's odd, and I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed it.

 

When I Cmd-open a window (to make it open in a new window, it goes to a tab. Normally this is fine, but if I'm sorting files from folder to folder, it's easier to have them side by side. But if I drag a tabbed window out, so as to make is a separate window, the drag preview (mini image of the window) gets left on my desktop. It's not clickable or selectable, and if I close all windows, the Finder doesn't recognize it as an open window. Here it is:

ghostwindow.png

Has anyone else seen this, or know what causes it? I have noticed that Mavericks has some odd issues with desktop images (e.g. the Launchpad icon/dock prefs thing), but this is a new one.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), 27" 3.4 Ghz Core i7

Posted on Dec 14, 2013 12:00 PM

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  • by travisstraub,

    travisstraub travisstraub Mar 5, 2014 7:13 PM in response to Ravenmoon
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    Mar 5, 2014 7:13 PM in response to Ravenmoon

    Hey Ravenmoon,

    I would suggest clearing all your caches.

     

    Clear User Cache

    1. Open Finder, press CMD + Shift + G, paste ~/Library/ into that window and press return.

    2. In the Library folder you will see a folder labeled Caches. Close all running applications, and then drag this folder to the trash.

     

    Safe Boot:

    1. Turn your computer off.

    2. While you turn the computer back on, immediately hold the Shift key until you see an Apple logo with the loading bar underneath.

    3. It will load your login page with your user, log in from here.

    4. Reboot your computer.

     

     

    This will clear your system cache.

    Let me know if that helps!

  • by Lutv,

    Lutv Lutv Mar 10, 2014 6:16 PM in response to travisstraub
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    Mar 10, 2014 6:16 PM in response to travisstraub

    Hello guys.

     

     

    Well, I found a fix that works for me:

     

     

    Delete the Finder PLIST file on your user/Library folder, then restart.

     

     

    How?

     

     

    Go to your user's folder then press CMD + J for view options and select "Show Library folder" return to finder and open the library folder then search the folder Preferences and locate the com.apple.finder.plist file inside, delete it and restart.

     

     

    PROS: No more mini-windows ghosts!

    CONS: You'll lose all finder windows configurations / views. But it can be done again.

     

     

    Hope it works for someone else.

  • by Mike Berson,

    Mike Berson Mike Berson Mar 11, 2014 8:05 AM in response to Lutv
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    Mar 11, 2014 8:05 AM in response to Lutv

    Hi Lutv,

     

    I just tried this but unfortunately, no luck for me.

  • by pugwash99,

    pugwash99 pugwash99 Mar 11, 2014 9:59 AM in response to Lutv
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    Mar 11, 2014 9:59 AM in response to Lutv

    Thanks for that Lutv.  It worked for me.

     

    Just a matter of setting up view options again, no big deal.

  • by NiagaraTim,

    NiagaraTim NiagaraTim Apr 30, 2014 9:09 AM in response to Ravenmoon
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    Apr 30, 2014 9:09 AM in response to Ravenmoon

    i get these ghosts too whenever I do a drag and drop between folders and I end up accidently creating a thumbnail of the folder ghosted onto the desktop and been searching for answers for quite some time and the only way I knew how to make them go away was to restart my mac but I found a quick and easy solution. just simply quit finder and when finder returns, the ghost thumbnail will have disappeared.. if its still there, try quitting finder one more time. hope this works for all whom encounter this bug on their mac desktops.

  • by Lutv,

    Lutv Lutv Apr 30, 2014 12:10 PM in response to NiagaraTim
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    Apr 30, 2014 12:10 PM in response to NiagaraTim

    Happend in another Mac, so I try the fix that I describe above, Is the only thing that worked for me, twice.

     

    Just delete the PLIST file from the USER/LIBRARY/PREFERENCES folder and restart, the Finder preferences  will be reset, but the ghosts will be gone!

     

    How? Read it above

  • by gavinlister,

    gavinlister gavinlister May 27, 2014 12:41 AM in response to Lutv
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    May 27, 2014 12:41 AM in response to Lutv

    Hey Lutv (or anyone else)

    I deleted the plist and also tried deleting the relevant totalfinder stuff from that plist.  It keeps coming back!!! 

    How do I delete things from the plist permanently without it all returning?  Is there a setup I need to change?

     

    Running Mavericks

     

    cheers

  • by binaryage,

    binaryage binaryage May 27, 2014 9:18 AM in response to Ravenmoon
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    May 27, 2014 9:18 AM in response to Ravenmoon

    Yes, this is caused by any app tweaking Finder's AnimateWindowZoom and DisableAllAnimations plist keys (TotalFinder does that).

     

    To fix it for plain Finder, please execute this as a single line in Terminal.app:

     

        osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to quit" && defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool false &&  defaults write com.apple.finder AnimateWindowZoom -bool true

     

    To fix it for TotalFinder please follow this post:

    http://discuss.binaryage.com/t/weird-finder-ghosting/1526/2

     

    I'm sorry for this glitch,

  • by Mike Berson,

    Mike Berson Mike Berson May 31, 2014 1:17 PM in response to Ravenmoon
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    May 31, 2014 1:17 PM in response to Ravenmoon

    I have discovered the cause of this issue (for my computer at least)!

     

    In my case it was because of TinkerTool:

     

    TinkerTool / Finder / Animation effects are UNCHECKED = Thumbnail ghost on desktop.

     

    Solution: CHECK both Animation effects choices and relaunch Finder = Ghosts busted.

     

    . . .

     

    I filed a bug report with the developer of TT and he has (quite quickly and graciously) confirmed it.

  • by wingtsun19,

    wingtsun19 wingtsun19 Dec 16, 2014 11:36 AM in response to Ravenmoon
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    Dec 16, 2014 11:36 AM in response to Ravenmoon

    This works perfectly!


    https://gist.github.com/darwin/d74ddce510f4a0b40b29


    Terminal:

    osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to quit" && defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool false && defaults write com.apple.finder AnimateWindowZoom -bool true && defaults write com.apple.finder TotalFinderDontFixInstallerDefaults -bool true

  • by polocanada,

    polocanada polocanada Apr 7, 2015 5:43 AM in response to Ravenmoon
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    Apr 7, 2015 5:43 AM in response to Ravenmoon

    This is slightly off-topic, but for the record - if anything fails or if you can't change the animation settings above - you can disable the Tab bar and that way it's hidden and you don't accidentally drag it. The problem still exist, however, the above fix is helpful.

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