Outlook security stripping wanted file attachments

[schomosport]

I want to sychronize Contacts and Calendar within Outlook 2000 between
my home PC and my office PC. To this end I exported calendar and
contact information from the office PC (Windows NT)in two .pst files
and emailed them to my home PC (XP Home). Plan was to save attachments
to desktop and then import them into Outlook to update the information.
UInfortunately Outlook has chosen to strip of the files and gives the
following message:
"Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe
attachments: calendar.pst, contacts.pst"

Is there a work around using email - I appreciate the reason why
Outlook has performed this action but hey, I'm a big boy, my email
server has resident antivirus protection as have the PC's running at
both ends. Outlook is getting in the way of a legitimate task that I
want to perform - how can I stop it? OK, I could put them on a floppy I
suppose but this is a task I want to be doing on a regular basis and
email is an expedient means of 'connecting' two machines.
Thanks in anticipation

Schomosport

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Put the .pst files in a .zip archive or rename them to something like .ps_
before you attach.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm for more information.
(Outlook 2000's version number is 9.0 if you decide to go with editing the
registry.)