Thanks to everyone for your comments/questions. A couple of things I discovered during this process.

1) I had checked the server for everything except that the SSIS account had...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I should have stated in my original post that I did open and re-save the package as a SQL 2016 Target. No errors where reported...

Feeling pretty stupid. :rolleyes:

I was getting the file group not empty error. I had not deleted my partition scheme or partition function yet. I did not realize they were tied...

I am having a similar issue and I do have partitioned tables. However, I removed the partitioned tables (stored procedures, schema, etc.) prior to trying to remove the file/file group....

Boy do I feel silly. I did not even look to see if SQL Agent could do something like that.

That will meet my needs.

Thanks again,

John