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Free local browser utility

List Prep by Emulyn

Clean and diagnose pasted, text-file, CSV, or TSV selection lists locally before they enter a live matching workflow.

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Who it is for

Photographers, assistants, clients, producers, and retouchers who receive messy filename or selection lists.

The workaround it improves

Manual find-and-replace, spreadsheet cleanup, and repeated copying that hides blanks, duplicates, partial names, and extension inconsistencies.

Product proof

Interface and demonstration assets

Placeholders are marked honestly until rights-cleared release assets are approved.

Marked placeholder

List Prep original and normalized values placeholder

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List Prep demonstration placeholder

Exact product contract

Inputs, outputs, reads, and writes

Every Emulyn product keeps its own boundary.

Supported inputs

  • Pasted list text
  • Plain-text list files
  • CSV and TSV input

Produced outputs

  • Cleaned copyable list
  • Cleaned-list download
  • Copyable or downloadable diagnostic summary
  • Visible original-versus-normalized changes

What it reads

  • Only the list text deliberately pasted or opened in the local browser

What it writes or changes

  • Optional browser download created after explicit user action
  • No source-list overwrite

Local, catalog, file, and network behavior

Nothing important stays implied.

Catalog read
No Lightroom catalog access is required.
Catalog write
No catalog write is performed.
Direct .lrcat access
Never
File creation
Creates only an optional cleaned-list or diagnostics download initiated by the user.
Network
The utility is designed to make no network request containing list contents.
Privacy
List contents remain in the browser session and are not uploaded.
Exceptions and ambiguity
Suspicious partial names and malformed references are surfaced for review rather than rewritten as certain matches.
Recovery
Original input remains visible beside normalized output; downloads are new files.

What it checks, creates, or changes

  • Duplicates and blanks
  • Common separators and formatting errors
  • Suspicious partial names
  • Extension inconsistencies
  • Likely malformed references

What it deliberately does not do

  • Upload list contents
  • Require an account or email before showing the result
  • Match against a Lightroom catalog
  • Resolve ambiguous filenames as photographs

Exact compatibility

Tested rows only.

Compatibility policy
No public compatibility row is authorized yet.

Private engineering evidence does not become a public support claim until the exact product, host, OS, architecture, and release row pass review.

Known limitations

What still has to be true.

  • Public browser compatibility rows and release authority remain absent.
  • Local templates and persistence are post-launch enhancements.

Installation

No installation is required for the browser utility; an exact public URL or offline package will be released only after its public gate passes.

Update policy

The utility is free; compatibility and support scope will be published with the authorized release.

Policy language remains subject to legal review before public activation.

Frequently asked questions

Clear answers before checkout.

Does List Prep upload my list?

No. The approved design processes list contents locally in the browser.

Do I need to provide an email?

No. The useful result comes before any optional opt-in.

Support and release

Free utility means exactly that.

Review licenses, affiliate eligibility, checkout, download, sitemap indexing, and structured product data remain disabled until this product’s release gate passes.

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List cleanup does not prove that a reference matches a unique photograph. Emulyn is independent from Adobe and is not endorsed, sponsored, or certified by Adobe.