# Compress a file

**URL:** <https://forum.rapidcompact.com/t/compress-a-file/112>\
**Category:** Processing issue\
**Created:** [September 28, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.rapidcompact.com/t/compress-a-file/112 "2023-09-28T21:24:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Fidji](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.rapidcompact.com/fidji/32/93_2.png) [@Fidji](https://forum.rapidcompact.com/u/Fidji)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.rapidcompact.com/t/compress-a-file/112/1 "2023-09-28T21:24:59Z")

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Hello, first of all I’m sorry if the English is not perfect I use google translate.

So in fact I have a problem with RapidCompact, I can no longer get it to compress .mtl files (although it worked a few weeks ago). Does anyone know how I could do this? screenshot attached

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/rapidcompact/original/1X/3b8293aef3d927456b1be5413050b782257fe6d5.png)