Hard shutdown needed to get desktop back

I’m sure there is an explanation for this, which I’d love to know, in case it happens again.
While dragging a .jpg photo down my desktop to the trash, I lost control of the mouse. The photo then opened on my screen surrounded by black (no desktop). For a split second, controls of some sort appeared below the photo and then disappeared.
I could not find a way to get back to the desktop. The controls would not appear again. Every time I tried escape, the system alert sounded. Right-clicking produced nothing.
In the end had to do a hard shutdown. When started up again all was well. Checked mouse preferences: side buttons off and scroll ball set to Expose all windows.
Any help appreciated. Don’t want to have to do a hard shutdown again.

Remember Command-Option-Esc. Try it now. That is the keyboard shortcut to bring up the Force Quit window (usually accessed from the Apple menu). If any app is "hung up" (not responding) it will be RED on the list. You can select it and do a Force Quit. That should give you back control of the Mac.
You can also try doing Command-Tab. This brings up the application switcher. Keep the Command key down and keep pressing Tab to select the app to swtich too. Try to switch to a different app.
I have no idea why that happened. Since you dropped a file onto the Desktop, it may have been Finder that was not responding. If you were in the process of moving files, you would have been in Finder. You can Force Quit Finder, and it will relaunch automatically (because Finder is aways suppoesd to be running).

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