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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 Ravenmoon,

    Ravenmoon Ravenmoon Dec 14, 2013 1:47 PM in response to Ravenmoon
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    Dec 14, 2013 1:47 PM in response to Ravenmoon

    Just another observation: The mini 'ghost window' is nether clickable nor selectable, but it disables right-click. RIght-clicking on the window image does nothing instead of bringing up the desktop centextual menu.....

     

    Curiouser and curiouser....

     

    Any notions? Anyone? Anyone? Beuler?

  • by Germanotta,

    Germanotta Germanotta Dec 17, 2013 1:17 PM in response to Ravenmoon
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    Dec 17, 2013 1:17 PM in response to Ravenmoon

    Yes I noticed this, I think the best thing to do is submit a bug report to Apple. Btw, do you use Intel Iris graphics?

  • by Germanotta,

    Germanotta Germanotta Dec 17, 2013 1:18 PM in response to Ravenmoon
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    Dec 17, 2013 1:18 PM in response to Ravenmoon

    Also relaunching the Finder makes all "ghosts" disappear

  • by Lutv,

    Lutv Lutv Dec 25, 2013 7:50 PM in response to Ravenmoon
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    Dec 25, 2013 7:50 PM in response to Ravenmoon

    Hello everyone.

     

    I just noticed that today, same problem here, (OS X Mavericks 10.9.1)ScreenShot.png

    First I thought could be the Box Sync Helper (in Finder) but now I can see its not the case, does anyone know a solution? Suddenly it becomes an annoying bug because I'm working with multiple Finder windows.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Dec 25, 2013 7:52 PM in response to Ravenmoon
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    Dec 25, 2013 7:52 PM in response to Ravenmoon

    There have been several reports. I can't remember, but it may be associated with TotalFinder or PathFinder.

  • by Lutv,

    Lutv Lutv Dec 25, 2013 8:02 PM in response to Ravenmoon
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    Dec 25, 2013 8:02 PM in response to Ravenmoon

    But the detail is... I don't have any of those apps installed (iMac).

     

     

    I had TotalFinder installed once, but I completely removed it since I updated to Mavericks.

     

     

    And I try to reproduce the bug in a MacBook Pro with a clean installation of Mavericks and it's not happening there... So I'm more confused now.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Dec 25, 2013 8:19 PM in response to Lutv
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    Dec 25, 2013 8:19 PM in response to Lutv

    Are you certain all of TotalFinder was removed? This program by Etresoft can help show what is loading: http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

     

    Here is the thread that implicated TotalFinder. Another person implicated XtraFinder.

    https://discussions.apple.com/message/23490070#23490070

     

    You can check to see if it is third-party related by running in Safe Mode. If it works in Safe Mode, you have something running that is messing with it.

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564

  • by theBelt,

    theBelt theBelt Jan 6, 2014 3:33 AM in response to Germanotta
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    Jan 6, 2014 3:33 AM in response to Germanotta

    Yes, I force-quit the Finder and after that the ghost-window icon had gone. But after a reboot it reappeared.

  • by Mike Berson,

    Mike Berson Mike Berson Mar 5, 2014 12:41 PM in response to Ravenmoon
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    Mar 5, 2014 12:41 PM in response to Ravenmoon

    This happens to me too.

     

    I was using Path Finder 6 Demo but not anymore. Ghosts happen regardless.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Mar 5, 2014 3:18 PM in response to Mike Berson
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    Mar 5, 2014 3:18 PM in response to Mike Berson

    Mike Berson wrote:

     

    This happens to me too.

     

    I was using Path Finder 6 Demo but not anymore. Ghosts happen regardless.

    Are you sure it is fully uninstalled?

  • by Mike Berson,

    Mike Berson Mike Berson Mar 5, 2014 3:57 PM in response to Barney-15E
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    Mar 5, 2014 3:57 PM in response to Barney-15E

    Thank you for responding to my comment.

     

    Actually no, I'm not sure at all. When I get the chance I'll figure out what files to look for and where to find them.

     

    Once fully uninstlled I'll post back with the results.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Mar 5, 2014 4:30 PM in response to Mike Berson
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    Mar 5, 2014 4:30 PM in response to Mike Berson

    Mike Berson wrote:

     

    Thank you for responding to my comment.

     

    Actually no, I'm not sure at all. When I get the chance I'll figure out what files to look for and where to find them.

     

    Once fully uninstlled I'll post back with the results.

    I've never used the software, but I imagine it must install more than just an application to do what it does, so if you only moved the app to the trash, I'm concerned that there was more to it left behind.

  • by Lutv,

    Lutv Lutv Mar 5, 2014 6:05 PM in response to Barney-15E
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    Mar 5, 2014 6:05 PM in response to Barney-15E

    Yep. I'm still having the problem, is very annoying, no one seems to have a solution, advice, trick, I thought: - with 10.9.2 OS X version maybe the problem will be fixed... - Didn't happen

     

     

    PS. I had once TotalFinder

    PS 2. I uninstalled it with AppCleaner to ensure that everything is gone. No solution for the problem.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Mar 5, 2014 6:41 PM in response to Lutv
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    Mar 5, 2014 6:41 PM in response to Lutv

    Sorry. All the situations I had seen before were tied to totalfinder or pathfinder (can't remember if it was one, the other, or both). I know there was at least one other thread here that had the same problem. There may be more info there, but I haven't seen it pop up as updated in my list of posts and I don't remember anything more. May be worthwhile hunting for it, though.

     

    The System shrinks the window down like that, but it shouldn't remain. Something is interfering at the point that it is shrunk down. To me, the whole effect is kind of hokey.

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