File(s) appear in all OS X finder window frames. How did I remove? TIA

Yep. File icon with filename under it appears on all finder window frames next to Search window. I have two: one an existing file on Desktop and another for which I deleted the actual Desktop file which now appears as a question mark only. I think I dropped these Desktop file on a Finder window frame. My bad. I can't find a way to rid myself of them. Maybe Disk warrior can help? If I log in under a different user these files do not appear on the window frames. Can someone help?

Thanks for the response. I've looked into things in the past and this gives me more things to look at. Let's first talk about that file that is not shown as a ?. It's called Senate Action on Cloture Motions.rtf, although that is irrelevant. The Name and icon appears on the Desktop itself as usual, and on every Finder Window Frame when I'm logged in (as opposed to another user logged in). The file is also in the Desktop Folder as you say, but only once. In effect, I have 3 name instances of that file. The ? file no longer appears on the desktop, since I deleted the actual file, but the ? for it still appears on Finder window frames. The ? does not appear in the Desktop Folder. I ***think*** I somehow created an alias for these files, but don't know how I got them on the Finder Window frames. If I could find the alias, I may be able to fix this myself.

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