Accident: Dragged thousands of jpeg files onto desktop and lexar drive and unable to trash

In a failed attempt to copy thousands of photos from iphoto onto a lexar jumpdrive, I fumbled and somehow managed to drop them onto my desktop and the lexar drive. Was in a rush to leave and fumbled a bit more not knowing exactly what I was doing and just turned the mac off and back on. All items that were initially on my desktop disappeared. Figured out I had those thousands of photos on my desktop (invisable though to see) and also they were "zero" in size. I could view these if I looked at my desktop via a folder on the harddrive. Being able to do so I gathered up my other items and put them in folders off of the desktop and then proceeded to pull all the "zero" files into the trash. Got the message that another application was using these and do I still want to trash them - I did so I proceeded with each individual file asking the same question. After I shutdown. The next day started up and the files had not deleted. I decided to put the lexar drive in (had not looked at it yet since pulled it out in the beginning). That also had files that I am unable to delete.
help!

I think that I got the problem solved only It was extremely time consuming. I had 60,000 zero files on the desktop and I selected a bunch at a time, held the control button, selected "move to the trash", answered "continue" from a pop up (told me that they were being used by an application and that it may make the app not function correctly - I ignored that) and continued until all 60,000 were gone. I am assuming the application it was refering to was the finder? I then went to the disk utility and repaired the Disk Permissions (not sure if that helped or not). Anyways, the finder is working fine - so far!
I figured that this same process would have to be done with the jump drive and had not done that let. You saved me! I just reformatted that with the Disk Utility and I am back to business! I will certainly keep in mind the removing of the desktop preference file if this happens again and my curiosity is up wondering if that would have saved a whole lot of mindless hours clicking "continue" 60,000 times.
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