Image thumbnail stuck on screen

How do you force quit Finder?

I have exactly the same issue. For me rebooting will remove the unwanted stuck/ghost icon. But, that gets old - and annoying.

My machine:

Mid 2015 Macbook Pro Retina 15"

High Sierra 10.13.3

If trying to move an image triggers the image thumbnail stuck on your screen try this, worked for me: (My 2nd reply)

Go to Settings / Trackpad / tab Point & Click / Now uncheck Look up & data detectors

Worked for me! Both of my MacBook Pro have this option unchecked.

SAME PROBLEM

The desktop has retained a small embedded image that had just been set as a new desktop picture.

What I did -

Changed pix name

selected pix > command click>select from drop down menu>set desktop picture.

This is what happened, the result -

The image remains persistent on the desktop. It is small, a little larger than a thumbnail.

It is persistent through multiple screens.

iBooks was open, other applications were closed.

I often use image capture,no problem on its own.

I usually change desktop pix about once or twice a month.

Often use pix that I like other than Apples although they are truly gorgeous.

Try to fix>close TextEdit (which I opened to note this event)> restart.

That fixed it.

Thanks for mentioning the Finder fix, hope I won't need it.

Seems different actions set it off. I am using MacBook Pro 15" 2016, OSX 10.13.3, a recent upgrade.

Also had a couple of episodes of persistent multiple images when iTunes open. Transferring some music to an external drive,SSD.The problem is known at Apple.

Would be great to find a permanent fix.

I created an account just to try and get Apple to get some people working on this issue. It's St. Patrick's Day and still no **** luck with these thumbnails. Hint: easy way to force quit finder. click the finder app icon, go to apple icon in the upper left of screen and click to see the menu, hold shift and click "force quit finder (forward most application in use)" on the drop down menu. 😀

Exact same problem here. Brand new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. I have an older MacBook Pro as well as an iMac I work on daily and never had this problem before.

To add to the descriptions, when dragging from the finder window (which is in thumbnail view) into InDesign, the thumbnail stays stuck on the screen in the same place. Nothing but a force-quit/relaunch of finder, or a reboot, will remove it from the screen.

I have the same thing... It's super annoying especially when you need to screenshot stuff a lot as I do... Have to restart my computer every time... And then it just happens again an hour later. I really hope Apple can fix this with an update or something.

I'm having this problem as well. Very annoying.

2017 Macbook Pro, Touch Bar, High Sierra.

I just turned off the Look up & data detectors. We'll see if that helps! Am I losing anything critical by doing that?

Apple, please get on this!

Cheers,

Fred

Joining the club of people seeing this issue. Macbook Pro Retina 13" 2015 running high sierra. Will try the Look up & data detectors fix later on. Hope to see a proper fix for this though. its very annoying...

My solution: Uncheck Look up & data detectors on System Preferences / Trackpad / Point & Click tab.

• Doing this it wont happen again!!!

(To get rid of the image stuck just Force Quit the Finder)

• Click on Finder, then click on Apple icon on the top left and click Force Quit, the image will vanish.

I will keep posting it but Apple should check further on this function and fix permanently the problem!

COME ON APPLE, USE THIS INFORMATION AND SEND AN UPDATE DISABLING THAT FUNCTION!!! Actually close this topic and add this solution as reply to the fist post as well or change this topic title to SOLUTION TO THUMBNAIL STUCK ON SCREEN or... (this if any Apple professional is looking at this post what I doubt by now) (4th reply)

What was I thinking, I logged in with my apple ID on an Apple site and Apple is not here, ooops, my mistake!

Thanks for letting me know Old Toad but Apple is missing a lots of useful information in my opinion.

I have this problem too but have found it occurs whenever I use Preview to convert a JPG to PNG.

If I modify a JPG in Preview, I'll see a prompt that requires converting the JPG to a PNG. When I click Okay, I continue to edit the PNG but there is a "residue" image of the JPG. It can't be opened, edited or deleted, but it appears.

But it only occurs during the conversion. And force-quitting Finder didn't fix it.

I have the same issue with my BRAND NEW Macbook Pro touchbar.

When i drag images out of an email to my desktop - occasionally one will transfer by but also remain as a ghost image on my desktop.

I cannot FORCE QUIT finder - it only allows me to 'Relaunch' - and at this stage the only way to get rid of the image, is to 'Restart' the computer..

A little annoying - after paying $3500 aU

Yes!! I think this is finally the fix! I think it is a secondary clicking issue, as with my older macpro I would use one hand to click and drag at the same time- when I do this on my new touch macpro it creats this stamped ghost image on my desktop. If I use two hands to click (with one hand) and drag (with another hand) it does not create the ghost image. As per your suggestion I turned off this setting and so far so good! Apple needs to fix this issue. I will be calling applecare and updating my ticket with this info. Thanks!

When drop a image from Finder to other softwares, this problem happen.

Thank you for you solution, which helped me.

I am a user from China, many mac book pro have the same problem.

I hope Apple can solve the problem.

Two useful solutions:

1 Uncheck Look up & data detectors on System Preferences / Trackpad / Point & Click tab.

• Doing this it wont happen again!!!

But we can not use "Look up & data detectors" either, so we do not uncheck it , but change it to the option of "three fingers tap"

2 (To get rid of the image stuck just Force Quit the Finder)

• Click on Finder, then click on Apple icon on the top left and click Force Quit, the image will vanish.