Renaming quotation marks on FAT32 external drive

I used a quotation mark in a name I gave a folder on my new 500gb external drive. It was fat32, and now I cannot open, right click, or do anything to the folder, it renames itself when i do that to my email backup folder. It goes back to normal when i re-open the drive, but I cannot do anything to it.
I tried using the mv command in terminal, but it doesn't recognize the " marks when i use them. Does anyone have any advice?

Figured it out.

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