Folder disappeared from desktop after installing iTunes 12.1.0.5

I recently had to upgrade to iTunes 12.1.0.5 so that I could get the computer to talk to the phone again. The next time I restarted the computer a rather large folder that was on the desktop had simply vanished. The folder lived there for over a year and contained many different items including documents of all sorts, photos, video and audio files, pdf's, etc., each in separate folders within the one parent folder. None of the missing folders or items turn up in finder now. When I go to open recent I see some of the items, but they will not load. I can click on them but nothing happens. I downloaded recovery software (disk drill, stellar pheonix) both of which turned up long ago deleted files and lots of stuff I've never seen before (presumably apple stuff, sound bits, random stock photos and video), but so far none of the items from the folder. It seems rather odd to say the least. I have always used mac's and have owned 3 or 4 different computers over the last 20 years. I have always kept folders on the desktop and I regularly run disk utility to reset permissions. I do back-up onto an external hard-drive, though some of these files had not been backed-up yet. I can most likely reconstruct most of what was lost. I am not looking for advice on how to keep this from happening again as it seems to me there is no logical reason that a folder would just disappear or magically find its way into the trash. My question is this, has anyone out there ever encountered this and if so, were you able to recover the folder?
Thank you.

Thanks to all who have replied so far.
Also thanks to my brother who found a post from user s49 on Jan 3, 2013 in a response to a problem from a user who had the same problem in iTunes 11. I'll repeat what s49 did here since it solved the problem without having to change any security settings.
* First open the terminal program found in Application/Utilities folder
* At the prompt type cd /Applications/
* Then type the command sudo rm -rf iTunes.app/
* You will be prompted for the administrator users password, enter it.
* Then go to http://www.apple.com/itunes/download and download the iTunes 12.1 installer for Mac.
* Once the download finishes reinstall iTunes 12.1
Once again, thanks for user s49 for above directions. It appeared that when updating iTunes to 12.1 from the Mac app store that something stayed in the iTunes.app/ directory that caused the problem. lWhat that was I don't know.
Since doing the above steps I've had no further problems with iTunes asking about network connections.

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