Past-tense noun form of "Archiving"?
I have the following status messages in some code:
Deleting Session Data...
Deletion complete.
I want to use the same sentence structure (no alternate structure suggestions, please) to create similar status messages based on the verb archive instead of delete.
The first one is straightforward:
Archiving Session Data...
But unlike delete, archive does not seem to have a distinct noun form for the completed act of archiving. Is the following correct, and are there alternatives to that word form?
Archiving complete.
Solution 1:
There is nothing wrong with your original formulation. Archiving is just as valid as deletion.
However, if you don't like the fact that one ends in -ion while the other ends in -ing, you can switch to a more active use of the verbs.
Keeping the capitalization used in the question, it would look like this:
Deleting Session Data …
Session Data deleted.Archiving Session Data …
Session Data archived.