You would expect that it would take some time since the file is stored in the cloud and not locally. Whenever I need to access and work on a file, I double click it and it opens straight away. It’s true that I still need to be connected to the internet to use it but I have access to Wi-Fi most of the time anyway. To date, I still use a 128 GB MacBook Air, and I don’t really need to upgrade to a bigger SSD because I use pCloud Drive as a virtual hard disk. This is why I had to find an alternative solution and I came across the pCloud desktop app, pCloud Drive (and that happened way before I joined the pCloud team). Back then they didn’t have selective sync, so I had to either pretty much keep everything on my computer anyway, or struggle with the fact that it took quite a while to get to my files in the cloud. I had used Dropbox before that and I knew that it wasn’t an option. I had to choose between the 128 GB and 256 GB versions, both of which were suboptimal. To get what I was looking for, I had to sacrifice the hard disk space. At that time I was freelancing, running from meeting to meeting and traveling a lot – so I needed the perfect combination of size, weight and battery life.

A few years ago, I made the jump from a Windows computer to a Mac.

Pcloud drive