I actually finally resolved this issue. Bottom line... hard drive. More to it... I had an external HDD (USB), that surface scans, etc showed NO problems whatsoever. Well, it just up and died, with no warning, etc. After that (this evening), I tried 2.5 again, and it Ghosted without an issue.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Kjell Rilbe <kjell.rilbe@...> wrote:
>
> munster77054 skriver:
> > WITH ALL RESPECT TO ALL MEMBERS HERE, this will be the last post to this
> > thread I will make, or more accurately, PLAN on making,
>
> Why? Seems rather inconstructive(?) to refuse to discuss something while
> there's still disagreement among those discussing it.
>
> You state that NG and a different unnamed (why?) software does somthing
> wrong when reading and backing up FB 2.5 program files.
>
> OK, noone is disputing that!
>
> But how to find out what's going on, to be able to fix it? What do you
> really expect FB developers to do with this info? They have no means of
> analysing what happens, since they cannot trace, step or otherwise debug
> the program that's actually running when things go wrong.
>
> You've stated yourself that FB IS NOT RUNNING at the time. This implies
> that it's not FB code that's wrong. Tracing and debugging FB code is
> pointless, since when the problem occurs, the FB code is not really
> being executed at all. It's used as data by a backup program. The code
> being executed is the backup program's code, and that's the code that
> has to be debugged BY THOSE WHO WROTE IT, i.e. Symantec för NG and
> who-knows for the other anonymous software.
>
> > since I'm
> > convinced, based on the imperial evidence, that it is FB 2.5.x, not NG
> > or the other imaging software has the issue.
>
> It may be FB 2.5 that causes the backup software to go wrong, but it's
> cannot be th FB code that should be fixed, since it's not being executed
> at the time. Note: if FB code IS being executed at the time, then the
> backup software is doing something REALLY WEIRD!!! Why on earth would
> backup software execute the program files it's backing up? Seems VERY
> DANGEROUS and TOTALLY USELESS and that fact in itself would be enough
> for me to purpopsefully make sure I never let that backup software
> anywhere near my computer or any other computer I have any influence
> over whatsoever. I would BAN such software without hesitation.
>
> Kjell
> --
> --------------------------------------
> Kjell Rilbe
> DataDIA AB
> E-post: kjell@...
> Telefon: 08-761 06 55
> Mobil: 0733-44 24 64
>