Dragging tabbed window leaves ghost?

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.

Hi Lutv,

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

Thanks for that Lutv. It worked for me. 🙂

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

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.

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 🙂

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

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,

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.

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

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.

This works:

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

Thanks to GitHub reference here: http://discuss.binaryage.com/t/weird-finder-ghosting/1526

Some one have a solution please??

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.

Lutv's solution worked perfectly for me.

Still not entirely sure what caused the issue in the first place.