Dragging Files Copies Them

Hello,
Each time when I go to drag a group of files from one side of my desktop to another, instead of dragigng them (physically moving their location on their desktop), it makes a copy of each of them, and leaves the originals. Thus, I have two of the same icon/file on my desktop. One on the right "Essay" and on the left where I went to drag "Essay 2." Any advice would be appreciated!
Thank you!

Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key and choose Library. Then go to Preferences folder and trash this file.
com.apple.finder.plist
Then, restart, or log out and in again.
(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)

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