ITunes seeing old phone as new phone

After using my iPhone for several months iTunes is all of a sudden telling me "An iPhone has been previously synced with this computer" and asking me to set it up as a new phone or to restore it from a backup. It has never done this before. My iPhone has the maximum number of apps installed and I have spent hours getting the apps that I want on it in a well organized manner. Also, I use several apps that don't get synced in iTunes and have a lot of data saved with those apps. It seems that either setting up my iPhone as a new iPhone or restoring it will cause me a huge loss of data and hours of time in getting everything set up again the way I want it.
So my questions are:
Why would this happen where iTunes thinks my iPhone is a stranger all of a sudden?
What is the best way to go about fixing it?

I am also experiencing this problem. Since last night, when connecting my iPhone, iTunes brings up the screen described - "Set Up Your iPhone. An iPhone has been previously synced with this computer."
I get given the choice to "Set up as a new iPhone" or "Restore from the backup of:" (iPhone name). I want to do neither.
This is the only iPhone that has ever been connected to my computer. I have tried resetting as described above and this has made no difference.
Does anyone know why this might have happened? The last thing I did with the device was configure a VPN on it, but I can't see why that should stop my computer from recognising it.

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