File appears in finder sidebar and I can't delete

For whatever reason, my finder sidebar has one of my thousands of files which has made its way into it.  I'd like to get rid of this, but have tried finder prefs without success. Clicking on it just opens the file.file://localhost/Users/home/Desktop/Finder.tiff

Found the answer in an earlier (2008!) discussion.  Ctrl click!

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