Any idea why my desktop drive name changed to '\

Hi.
Just sat down to do some work for the first time in two days and noticed that an external drive on my iMac and a desktop folder have had their names changed. The drive changed to '\ and the folder changed to \
I found my 3-year-old noodling on the keyboard for a few seconds earlier in the day, but don't think that's it. The two new names seem ominously similar and suspicious. The folder was no problem -- I just created a new folder with the old name, copied my files to it, and then trashed the one with the changed name. The hard drive will not let me change its name, however. I can click on the name field, but when I start typing, it tabs to the next item on the desktop.
I restarted, ran Disk Utility to verify the drive in question, and repaired permissions on the internal drive. I do think I have one tiny bad spot on this external disk, but it's been working fine otherwise and I have it backed up. But regardless, this wouldn't explain why a totally unrelated folder on my desktop suffered a similar fate.
Any ideas what caused this, whether I can change the name back, or if it's going to cause problems down the line if I can't?
Thank you.

Do you have children or a cat? I found the same thing after my grandson visited not long after he reached the "mobile" stage. A few minutes banging on teh keyboard of my wife's iMac left the hard drive with an odd character for a name.
Cats are more computer-literate that many people think. When they walk across the keyboard, they seem to know exactly the right keystrokes to make you computer do odd things--if you are lucky. If you are not lucky, cats know how to leave remnants of meals past of worse on a keyboard.

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