IPhone icon disappeared from iTunes after successful iOS 8.1 installation

Just after I just successfully downloaded and installed iOS 8.1 onto my iPhone 5 from iTunes, I got the following message: "iTunes could not connect this phone. The session ID is missing". I have no idea what that message meant, but now there's no longer an iPhone icon showing in iTunes, although there was before I upgraded the iOS. I had successfully bought several "songs" from the iTunes Store and synced them just prior to uploading the new iPhone iOS. I guess now I will have to eject the phone improperly. Any idea what "ID" that message was referring to, and what I should do? I want to also upgrade the iOS of my iPad, but don't want the same thing to happen.
My new computer is a 13" MacBook Pro with Retina Display, 2.8 Ghz processor, 8 GB memory, running OS 10.10 (Yosemite). iTunes has been working fine.

Hey samuelayres,
Thanks for the question and detailed information. You’re in luck, we have a support resource that includes troubleshooting steps for this exact issue:
iOS: Unknown error containing '0xE' when connecting to a Windows PC - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/TS3221
Thanks,
Matt M.

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