Applications opening off the desktop.

Hello,
Applications keep opening in a position where I cannot use them. In the image I have opened Filezilla and its opened to the right of the desktop but its unusable.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Chris

Open the AppleScript Editor in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and run:
tell application "Filezilla"
set bounds of window 1 to {0, 22, 1681, 848}
end tell
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