Why has Itunes update deleted my Iphone data in itunes?

Have just updated my itunes and now when i plug in my iphone it no longer has any data in itunes. Message comes up saying have to restore from factory setting.
What the ???
Why has this happened?

Restore from i Cloud Phone backup in i tunes takes 2 much space

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This is rubbish! ---- A real pain even more so with still no decent duplicate find and bulk delete facility.
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Apple's official advice on duplicates is here: Find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as lost ratings and playlist membership, or that sometimes the same file can be represented by multiple entries in the library and that deleting one and recycling the file will break the other.
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