File compression on upload

[stevewizard]

I am having a problem with FileZilla compressing my .htaccess when I upload it to the server. As a result, the 301 Redirects no longer work.
The file is written in Notepad++
The Host is BlueHost
The htaccess works fine when I use the cPanel filemanager to upload.
I can only assume something has gone wrong since the last update of FileZilla v 3.42.1 on WIN10 64-bit

Any Ideas?

Thank you
Steve

[botg]

FileZilla does not compress files.

[boco]

What do you mean by "compression"? If the file size shrinks a few Bytes, it's due to line ending conversion, performed when transferring the file as ASCII to a server using a different line ending scheme. See Data Type.

If you want the file to be transferred as-is, transfer it as Binary/Image Type. Can be changed in the settings.

[stevewizard]

I will try to upload as binary. It is an htaccess file and what I mean by compression is minify, ie. all carriage returns and spaces are removed sothefilecontentsendsuplookinglikethis. Thus, the file is not read properly by the server.