Strange doc appeared on desktop

Sorry in advance if I'm being lame but a strange file just appeared on my MacBook Pro screen.
File name is 829CAB00 and it seems to have a spreadsheet icon - it just appeared, can't open it or delete it. If I try and open nothing happens. If I try and delte it says "can't move to trash as cannot be deleted".
A quick google search turned up nothing.
Help anyone?

Well, files rarely pop up out of nowhere. Any resemblance of what you were doing when it showed up? Or just before you noticed it's there?
You should restart the Mac, I'd expect the file to be either gone or trashable then. Should it or something similar happen again, try to take note of what you are ore were just doing.

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