What is file indexing?

[richard d.24]

I have dropbox installed on my work computer that has software called deepfreeze (software by Faronics) on it. Basically deepfreeze boots from an image created when it was installed so every morning after I boot up my computer, dropbox spends 2-4 hours doing something called "indexing" even though my dropbox folder is on a non-frozen hard drive.
Does dropbox create a file index and store it somewhere on C drive?

[richard d.24]

Hello again dropbox community, I am having the same problems again with not change in my computer. I see that dropbox has many upgrades since this problem was discussed. has there been a change in the location of the files that I should be making a symbolic link to?

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