Background saving bug CS6 (stalls)

Background saving bug CS6
Problem:
1. Was Editing a rather large and complex file, 16bit, 1,6GB
2. Pressed ctr+s to save the progress
3. Immediately launched a 3rd party plugin, Niksoft Define 2 (I mean with two keyboard shortcuts in a row, within seconds of each other)
4. Plugin started
5. Background saving got stuck at 0% and went nowehere as the plugin launched.
6. No progress on the background saving after the plugin exited, and not able to save as a new file because PS said it was already saving the file. After 20 minutes still no progress. Taskmanager showed PS using 0% CPU and no disk i/o activity even though it stated it was saving.
Workaround
1. Duplicated the entire psb to a new file inside photoshop.
2. Saved and it worked fine.
3. Had to terminate photoshop via the task manager as it wouldnt let me exit "before file saving was complete".
My workflow here was probably a bit quick and "incosiderate", but I would still consider this behaviour a PS bug - I mean whats the use of background saving if it stalls when you are doing other tasks. Anyone else experienced this?
(OS W7 x64+PS CS6 EXT)

I have experienced this bug many times and it is very frustrating. There is no pattern to when it will happen it just happens out of the blue, I work full time commercially in 8, 16 and 32 bit regularly, file sizes averaging 5gb sometimes much larger and the bug has occurred in all these instances. I have however made these observations:
The original PS version with bg save had this fault and to my knowledge there was no easy work around apart from a very laborious process of Scripts/Export layers to files. Any duplication and resave of the document did not work as it was held in a queue behind the first file stuck on 0%
The next version of PS, CC and possibly first release of 2014, had a work around as suggested by someone else, by simply duplicating the file and saving. This would then jump the queue of the first file which was stuck on 0%.
The latest version of CC 2014 updated a couple of days ago has resorted to the first patten, i.e. duplicate and save but stuck in the queue, thus no work around.
This is a very serious problem which has gone on a bit too long. I am prompted to write this because it happened to me again last night whilst working on a 6gb 32bit render layer file, costing me a fair bit of time and effort on a commercial job.
I always use bg save and 10mins recovery, when the problem occurs I am able to use PS as if nothing has happened but unfortunately cannot save, I am thus forced to force quit the application. Unfortunately in this instance the force quit is not seen by PS as a crash and therefore offers no file recovery. What I think we need is the following:
The ability to force abort a save of the stuck file so that we can save another.
The ability to access background saved files even if PS has not actually crashed, this would have saved me last night.
In addition, a 5-10gb file takes a while to background save, during this save I cannot make a smart object. I would like to be able to pause a save so that I can make the smart object and then carry on my work whilst the save continues. This applies to recovery save also.
Adobe please help us out and address the problem.
Many thanks, Mark.

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