ITunes12 deletes iPhone and iPad firmware image

I´ve updated to recent iTunes 12 on my Mac with Lion 10.7.5 . I bought an used iPhone4s for my wife and i would like to use latest IOS 7 firmware which i had for my iPhone4s also. The "new" one came with 7.0.6 and I know I´ve downloaded 7.1.2 with iTunes on my Mac some month ago. Now i went to the ~/user/<Username>/Library/iTunes/iPhoneSoftwareUpdates folder and it´s empty - dammed ! But WHY ? I have not downloaded any newer image for my iPhone, so this won´t be the reason. Furthermore the iPadSoftwareUpdate folder is empty also.
Two question:
Who has lost *.ipsw (firmware) files too? Is it a iTunes12 "feature" ?
When TimeMachine is configured (as in my case), why are those folders always not shown in TimeMachine backups?
(I know how to display ~/Library folder in T M, but is not clear why it´s empty)
So if anyone has the same strange behavior, and maybe has a solution i appreciate to hear about.
Thanks in advance.
Alex

Note: I booted up in Safe mode. My devices connected. I restarted without Safe mode, and they now appear. Odd.

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