Microsoft backup has begun to fail, slowing dramatically while reading firefox\profile\i75smlo9.default

I've had this HP laptop about a year. Three weeks ago the Microsoft backup began failing. Error message related to shadow files. The backup seemed to run fine until it hit firefox\profile\i75smlo9.default at 15% into the backup, dragged horribly to about 25% and then gave up.

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 24 GB RAM Upgradeable
 OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) - Time since boot: 8:57:52
 26.40 GB Page-ins
 11 MB Page-outs
You have 24GB of RAM (a nice amount), but for a system that has been up 9 hours, you have 26GB of page-ins. Luckily only 11MB of page-outs (trivial).
Understanding page-in stats is mostly "Voodoo", in that there are perfectly good reasons to have page-in, but generally page-in values are alot lower than 26GB in only 9 hours. For example, my Macbook Pro has been up for 19 days, and only has 9+GB of page-in activity.
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You might get the same behavior if Photoshop usage is processing some huge images such that the images being edited are consuming far more than your 24GB. This is always possible, since you went to the trouble to buy 24GB of RAM and image processing can be very RAM intensive. If you are trying to run other programs while Photoshop is processing the huge images, this might be what is forcing the operating system to throw read-only code out of RAM and then paging-it the code again, and again, etc...
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Like I sais page-in activity analysis is "Voodoo" and not easy to quantify.
if you know you are running a utility to create free RAM, than that is most likely the cause. If you are running other programs while Photoshopping huge images, that might be the cause.
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