Syncing to the same computer (complicated)

I have an IPod touch 5th gen and I need to sync the music/photos/whatever to my account on my laptop. The complicated part is that it's the same computer, and I'm worried that most of my library won't be able to sync because most (literally way more than half) have the little grey exclamation point next to it ( I deleted the original files to save space; smart move) and I don't know what to do. Even without the original files being lost, I'd still worry about whether I could just sync like that to the same computer. I'm working on redownloading all of the files, which is time consuming but if that helps not having the original files lost. Please help  

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