"nano is full" message

If you make a big playlist on the mac, you can set the the software on a shuffle to randomly choose as many songs from the playlist as the shuffle can hold.
my new nano doesn't seem to want to do this; if the playlist is too big i just get a message saying the nano is full.
am i doing something wrong?
thanks
paul

so to summarise, it used to work really well.
now it doesn't.
apple seem to have taken a big step backwards.
thanks for your help, but if that were the official (apple) answer, i'd say that's a lousy answer.
again, thanks for your help.
p

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You’re welcome.
When I removed the preference file (com.apple.mail.plist), I also removed
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Well, that’s not what you said in your first post...
I only use "Other" because I read in one of Apple's notes that one should
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Locally stored mailboxes can be copied to the Desktop or anywhere else by just dragging them there from Mail itself (for server-stored IMAP mailboxes, copy the messages to locally stored “On My Mac” mailboxes in Mail first). These, however, are .mbox folders (not standard mbox files), where messages are stored in individual .emlx files that other mail clients don’t know or care about. They can be imported back into Mail doing File > Import Mailboxes and choosing Mail for Mac OS X as the data format.
It also explains why the import only brought in 5,200 items instead of the 7,900.
The question is: where are the others?
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not just do the permissions stuff. In my experience, if checking the disk gives you an
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Right. I missed that part of your first post. Sorry.
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