Finder Open But Won't Display

Somehow managed to drag my Finder window for a specific folder onto the desktop (probably this crazy sensitive mouse) and now Finder won't display or close it (I can minimize it). I can only access Finder with browse and save commands, not by manually accessing the Finder icon on the dock or in the toolbar. I use Finder a lot but am on a new iMac and don't quite know my way around the updated OS yet.

Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key and choose Library. Then go to Preferences folder and trash these files:
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Then, restart, or log out and in again.
(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)

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