Hey Robert, welcome to the forum!
Yes, that is totally normal if you did the recommended full wipe.
Lessons learned:
1) Learn the basics before customizing your device (see first thread in my sig)
2) ALWAYS have a backup
Thank You. I was just surprised because my camera data was on external SD card. I didn't wipe anything, only install new version of ROM. I started from V3.7 then I made only update to v4.2, v4.3, v4.4 and there was no problem till now with v4.5
Now I will always make a backup.