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How to reduce size of file so as to open in Wireshark

I have been enabling the Bluetooth HCI snoop log on my Android (Version 13) smartphone. I was able to open the first such log that I created in Wireshark, but after that, the subsequent logs were evidently too large to open in Wireshark because I received the following message when I tried to do so:

"The capture file appears to be damaged or corrupt. (btsnoop: File has 385941504-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 262144)"

Is there some way in Wireshark to instruct Wireshark to only download a smaller segment of the file? I tried creating smaller files in the Android Bluetooth HCI snoop log by recording Bluetooth data for shorter spans of time, but that caused the same message to appear, and so I am guessing that my Android smartphone is combining subsequent log files into one larger file. I have opened these log files in Notepad, but they are evidently encrypted since I see unintelligible symbols (like small squares containing question marks). Any advice that anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.