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10.4: Open movies on any drive in Front Row
Authored by: JadeNB on Aug 17, '06 11:35:49AM

It's true that you can access the folder without being able to view hidden folders, but I think that doesn't let you create an alias targetted at the folder (rather than its contents).

The symbolic link thing should work, but you can't target a symbolic link at ".". A better approach might be

ln -s /Volumes ~/Movies/Volumes

(which can be issued from any directory). Symbolic links have the weakness that they point at a path, rather than an i-node, but that shouldn't be a problem if the target is /Volumes.



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10.4: Open movies on any drive in Front Row
Authored by: Halopend on Aug 17, '06 02:47:37PM

To JadeNB, when in the finder and your navigating the contents of a folder, you can select that folder by clicking it's icon in the title bar. From there you can option+comand+drag the folder to create an alias of it.



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10.4: Open movies on any drive in Front Row
Authored by: eboss on Aug 17, '06 02:52:16PM

If you "hit Shift-Command-G (Go to Folder) in the Finder and just enter /Volumes" (like Rob said), you obtain the Volumes window.

All you have to do is click and hold on the folder icon on top of the window Command-option-drag it to the target folder (~/Movies/).

That way you don't have to open any Terminal, show any hidden folder, … only some ulltra-end-user techniques



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