Image thumbnail stuck on screen

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.

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.

FINALLY! After scrolling through 5 pages of things that didn't work satisfactorily (because I USE the data and lookup feature all the time!) tushar65 gave a solution that was easy and actually works! Thank you! This issue has been driving me NUTS!

Here's what worked: "All you do is when this happens is go in finder or any file for that matter and use quick look. Hit the space bar several times (quick looking any file) and the "ghost file" usually disappears. It works for me all the time and you don't have to quit finder as well."

This quick look fix worked fine, and since quick look (for me) puts up a thumbnail identical to what got stuck on the screen super briefly before the image fully opens in quick look, I bet the stuck thumbnail got there via some sort of light touch of the space-bar as I was double-clicking to open a few images in Preview. Can't recreate such now, but...

So doing "quick look" via the space bar on any file worked like a charm for me. Thanks!

I've been having this problem myself and just now fixed it by force quitting Finder. I'd like a permanent solution though as this is happening to me at least once a week.

I'm having the same issue. Did you get any help for it? The reply you got didn't seem helpful at all.

Boot into Safe Mode, Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode, and see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.

same issue here

Same for me, tiny thumbnails all over the screen after using Photoshop or Lightroom. Here's an example

I have this same issue! Seriously frustrating issue to have when you spend so much on a new computer. I am running a 2016 MacBook Pro 15" with Touch Bar. Apple needs to address this...

Happens on multiple files almost daily. Seems to be tied to dragging and dropping images to me.

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