Unwanted Remnant on Desktop Following Browsing With Safari


What is going on here? I was doing a bit of historical research using Safari. I concluded my research, quit Safari, only to find that I have this small remnant of the web page that I was looking at, still on my Desktop. I can't get rid of it ! It can't be selected, or dragged to Trash. When I try a Control-click, I get the same dialog box that I would get if I clicked anywhere on the Desktop - in other words, it's not of any use in getting rid of this artefact. Very strange ! Any suggestions as to how to go about getting rid of it?

I have - MacOS Big Sur 11.6.7

iMac 27″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Jul 18, 2022 07:47 PM

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Posted on Jul 19, 2022 02:39 AM

1 - Restart in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.


2 - Does the issue present in this mode ?


3 - Sometimes a Safe Boot followed by a Normal Boot will just put things right.

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