Desktop Drag 'n' Drop

I understand that the ability to D'n'D tunes to your desktop is not available
for larger quantities of tunes (a few hundred plus?),
but I'm curious if anyone has tried to highlight the tunes you want to drag and
Command-Delete them to the Trash and then drag them from there to a folder on your desktop?
I'm pushing the limits of a 2TB bay and I'm wanting to take about 100,000 tunes
only from the total of about 170,000 and save them on a separate drive to file away.
Yes, I should've just stopped and saved the copy on the external drive when I reached that point,
but I have, only now, decided to do this.
The "trash-to-desktop folder" idea works for smaller amounts,
but can't say that I've tried it for anything over a hundred or so at a time.
Anyone else try this?
Rod

it may not do exactly do what you want but have a look @ this script anyways:
[_*Re-Locate Selected v1.1*_|http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=relocateselected]
This script will re-locate the files of the selected iTunes tracks from their current location to a new user-chosen folder. iTunes will be updated with each track's new location and all of each track's meta-data will be preserved. Option to remove the files from their original location. (I don't advise using this on more than an album's worth of tracks or so at a time; re-locating dozens of tracks' files to a single folder doesn't seem to make much sense to me.)
NOTE: If your "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" preference set, you will not be able to create new folders in or re-locate files within the iTunes Media folder; outside is OK.
JGG

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