IPhone folder structure lost on sync

I have a lovely new iPhone 6, running iOS 8.2. On my old 4S I had organised my apps into a set of folders in such a way that they all fit on the home screen, with no paging left and right required. I was very disappointed to find this setup was lost when I restored my new phone from a backup of the old one - the folders were there but, apart from the apps that come with the phone by default, which were where I'd put them, all the remaining apps were spread over four and a bit pages in a completely random order - a complete mess, in other words. Anyway, I accepted this as a small price to pay for upgrading the phone and spent some time rebuilding my previous setup (referring to the 4S as I went), and all was well... until...
This morning I synced the phone with my Mac (and only to copy three podcasts), only to find that all that reorganisation was lost! I was back to the previous shambles. I've tried soft-resetting the phone, but that hasn’t helped. And yet the folders are 'remembered' on the Mac: each app is listed as being in the folder where I had put it.
Has anyone else experienced this? And if so, is there anything I can do to prevent a repeat?

OK, first the possible good news :
If the music purchased is still on the work computer back it up to disk and transfer it to your home computer.
The copy folder - iTunes>File>Add Folder to iTunes- will put it on your home computer.
If you will be using the iPhone on both computers set it up to be managed manually to prevent other surprises and remember to keep your music backed up.
Now the bad news :
If the music was on the iPhone and you have no back up on the work computer when you synced you erased the music and you can't download it again.
To prevent future expensive errors read this : http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iphoneuserguide.pdf
And remember to do back ups.
Apple is very clear that once you buy the music it's your job to do the back ups that will prevent lost purchases.

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