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Nothing is duplicated. /storage/emulated/0 and /storage/sdcard0 are exactly the same directory (and the same as /sdcard), just different paths to the same files.

It's all to do with updates made to the file system with an OS update last year (can't remember which one), introducing standard mount points for physical sd cards (/storage/sdcard1 if your device has one) and the "internal" sdcard (/storage/sdcard0), which isn't really an sd card at all but is the internal storage emulating one. All previous ways of addressing the internal storage are retained as well, to avoid breaking apps, hence you end up with this rather messy filesystem, with different ways of accessing the same files, and that's what you are seeing in your file browser.

Don't worry about it, nothing is wrong. I'd guess you had a system update not too long ago.
 
Oh no! There's already a link in that thread back to this one, now the discussion may go into an infinite loop.

On second thoughts the other thread somehow managed to do that all on its own anyway, so no harm done here :-)
 
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