Drag a file from a folder to my desktop

When I try to drag a file from a folder to my desktop, it gets thrown to the upper left-hand corner, almost all of it 'off' the desktop, not where I tried to 'set' it...wuwt?

In ~/Library/Preferences: Trash helpviewer.plist and helpviewer.plist.lockfile
In ~/Library/Caches: Trash all folders
In Macintosh HD/Library/Caches: Trash all folders
Restart iMac, and then Empty Trash.
The credit goes to whoever posted this on the net… it worked for me

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