Sebastien, I was able to reproduce this just like Andree said. After
copying several large files, Nautilus keeps writing them in background
and displays the reported message when the user tries to eject, long
after the progress dialog has closed:

$ while true; do date; df -m /media/ariel/Samsung\ USB/_fun/ | sed 1d; sleep 
30; done
Mon Jul 11 08:36:49 VET 2016
/dev/sde1          15280 10629      4652  70% /media/ariel/Samsung USB
Mon Jul 11 08:37:19 VET 2016
/dev/sde1          15280 11215      4066  74% /media/ariel/Samsung USB
Mon Jul 11 08:37:49 VET 2016
/dev/sde1          15280 11667      3614  77% /media/ariel/Samsung USB
Mon Jul 11 08:38:19 VET 2016
/dev/sde1          15280 12045      3236  79% /media/ariel/Samsung USB
Mon Jul 11 08:38:49 VET 2016
/dev/sde1          15280 12467      2814  82% /media/ariel/Samsung USB
Mon Jul 11 08:39:19 VET 2016
/dev/sde1          15280 12884      2397  85% /media/ariel/Samsung USB
Mon Jul 11 08:39:49 VET 2016
/dev/sde1          15280 13164      2117  87% /media/ariel/Samsung USB
Mon Jul 11 08:40:19 VET 2016
/dev/sde1          15280 13164      2117  87% /media/ariel/Samsung USB
Mon Jul 11 08:40:49 VET 2016
/dev/sde1          15280 13164      2117  87% /media/ariel/Samsung USB


$ lsof +D /media/ariel/Samsung\ USB/
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() tracefs file system /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
      Output information may be incomplete.
COMMAND   PID  USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE   SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
nautilus 1667 ariel   56w   REG   8,65 2419224576 1467 /media/ariel/Samsung 
USB/_fun/Evangelion Rebuild/Evangelion 3.33 - You Can (Not) Redo.mp4


My Nautilus version is 3.14.2-0ubuntu13 (Wily).

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