I posted a comment to that hint about what I did to have access to any volume I had in my external DVD drive, regardless of what the disc was. If you have a lot of movies backed up on tons of DVDs like I do, you might find that useful.
Given that a reader mailed me to tell me it was useful, I'm giving the hint here for publication on its own. Here's what I did :
- I made invisible files visible with Tinker Tool (you can, of course, do this with whatever tool you want).
- I then made an alias of /Volumes in ~/Movies, simply by dragging the Volumes folder while holding Command and Option (Alt).
- I then made all the invisible files invisible again. The alias stays visible.
[robg adds: An easier way to make the Volumes folder visible is to hit Shift-Command-G (Go: Go to Folder) in the Finder, then enter /Volumes and press Return. The Volumes folder will appear slightly ghosted, but you can still Command-Option drag it to make an alias.]

