DVD burn folder not going away

I have recently burned a dvd but something went wrong while burning and an error message popped up. I took the dvd out of my laptop and chucked it out, but there's still "untitled DVD" folder for burning staying on the sidebar on my finder.
The folder's got this radioactive kind of sign that you get before you burn the folder into a dvd and whilst I don't have the mentioned folder on my desktop, it just stays in the folder sidebar and won't go away. I can't delete it, if I right click the folder, all that comes up is "Open Sidebar Preferences".
The same thing happened to me a year ago and I somehow got rid of it but now I can't remember for the life of me just how I did it! Please help:(

Hi h, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Have you tried dragging it to the desktop? Should go up in a puff of smoke. If that doesn't do it, restart and try again. If that doesn't do it, do a PRAM reset and try again.
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