Help with Directory Structure Naming

[Quarkrad]

I'm trying to copying my photo collection of thousands of photos that are in a folder structure into a single folder so that I can look at managing my collection via tagging rather than having a fixed folder structure. I have looked at several terminal commands and I'm getting to understand(!) what they mean. However, they all fall down with the folder names - I keep getting messages such as No such file or directory - so my naming must be wrong. I keep trying different things like /Home/Pictures/photos, or I cd to Pictures and try photos/ or /photos/ but I'm not getting it right. My latest failure is:

dad@dadubuntu:~$ find /Home/Pictures/photos -type f -exec cp {} /Home/Pictures/single folder/ \;
find: ‘/Home/Pictures/photos’: No such file or directory
dad@dadubuntu:~$


so in my Pictures folder I have my photo collection in a top level folder called photos. I'm trying to copy all the files into another folder in Pictures called single folder. Any help appreciated as I have too many photo files to copy and paste - this would truely help if I can get this naming convention right.

[muteXe]

it's 'home'. not 'Home'

[Quarkrad]

Still doesn't work.

dad@dadubuntu:~$ find /home/Pictures/photos -type f -exec cp {} /home Pictures/single folder/ \;
find: ‘/home/Pictures/photos’: No such file or directory
dad@dadubuntu:~$ sudo find /home/Pictures/photos -type f -exec cp {} /home Pictures/single folder/ \;
[sudo] password for dad:
find: ‘/home/Pictures/photos’: No such file or directory
dad@dadubuntu:~$

note. this is a test of only four sub folders and a small number of files within each in Picures/photos. If I can get this to work I will try on my actual collection.

[Cheesemill]

You're missing your username, the full path should be:

/home/dad/Pictures/photos

or

~/Pictures/photos

~ is a shorthand way of writing your home directory.

[Quarkrad]

That did it - many thanks.

[Quarkrad]

For some reason I'm getting outputs with a lock and cross when I use this command:

sudo find /home/dad/Desktop/old -type f -exec cp {} /home/dad/Desktop/new \;

or

sudo find /home/dad/Desktop/old -type f -exec cp {} /home/dad/Desktop/new/ \;

see attached.

I can't understand while this is happening. Also, despite my efforts to get rid or rename duplicates before I execute this command some do get through. Is there a way to ammend this command so that if a duplicate file (they are photos) is found it is renamed reather than over written?