User account appearing twice on external hdd

Hi,
For some reason one of my external hard drives is reporting back that there are 2 user accounts of the same name name? I've checked & repaired my permissions & also tried a few things I've seen on this forum, but with no luck. I know it's only a small thing & I should not worry about it, but it's bugging the **** out of me & I don't know how to get rid of it.
Here is a picture of what I mean. As you can see, the one on the right is ok, but the left one has this random account & if I untick 'Ignore ownership' it becomes an account called _Unknown
Any help on this would be appreciated & thanks in adavance

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