Odd: Sidebar has my "computer Name with a (3) after it.

Hi,
Could someone tell me why in the finder window sidebar that it shows my computer name with a (3) after it?
"Computername"(3)
It has been running a little wacky in the last few months.iMac20" iMac 2.1
Thanks for your input.

I think this occurs when your network connection fails or changes, and then on re-establishing, the old name lingers on the Mac without being flushed, held in a cache perhaps and so it mistakenly thinks it is another of the same name.
That yours has a three after it, tends to support this view that the same name has been reconnected for a third time. I don't understand much more than that.
As JollyGiant says, just edit it back to how it should be.
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