What best practices (if any) do you adhere to regarding setting up outgoing and incoming folders for your FTP clients? We typically use “outgoing” and “incoming”, but no matter how you phrase the direction, it can be interpreted in two ways, depending on which end the names are relative to.
For example, an “incoming” folder on my end can be meant for files the client sends to me, hence incoming for me. But it can also be meant for files I send to the client, incoming to them. Typically, these always are relative to the party’s side on which the files reside. But no matter how clear it should be, it always seems to cause confusion for some parties (maybe because they’ve historically always made their names relative to their clients).
And no matter what options I come up with, they can always be interpreted differently. Some examples:
- incoming/outgoing
- send/receive
- upload/download
- to/from
Thoughts?
In this case probably you don’t want to use a verb as the meaning of the action will always depend on the reader location. Why don’t you use something along the line of
the action is always towards something “to_” but the object receiving the action is clearer.