Dragging images from iPhoto and onto my desktop

I want to go through all of my 10,000 photos in iPhotos and slowly copy them out so I can import them into Lightroom little by little.
I open the Photos section, and for each group of images in each section under the "Untitled Event" sections, I am dragging the images to a folder on my desktop to do this.
Is there any reason why I should not be doing it this way? Dragging them out like this makes exact copies of the images without doing anything to them, right?
Thanks in advance.

Dragging the thumbnails to the folder on the Desktop will get your the modified versions of those files if you have make any edits to them. If you want just the orignal files you should follow this workflow:
1 - select the file you want to export.
2 - select the File ➙ Export ➙ File Export menu.
3 - in the Export window select Kind=Original.
4 - export to the appropriate folder on your Desktop.
That will give you copies of the original files imported into your Library. That way you're starting Lightroom off with the originla, full sized files.
OT

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