Help with JTR Please

Any one got any ideas what I might be doing wrong with John the Ripper, I am out of ideas. I cannot get it to crack a password. I have followed the steps of
umask 077
unshadow /etc/passwd /etc/shadow > mypasswd

that take the mypasswd file in my /Desktop
I run the system via terminal as so. without the quote brackets.

[quote]root@kali:~# john --format=sha512crypt --wordlist='/root/Desktop/my wordlist/rockyou.txt' mypasswd
Using default input encoding: UTF-8
Loaded 2 password hashes with 2 different salts (sha512crypt, crypt(3) $6$ [SHA512 128/128 XOP 2x])
Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, almost any other key for status
0g 0:00:26:56 4.84% (ETA: 05:28:17) 0g/s 493.0p/s 986.1c/s 986.1C/s sesame12..serkan18
0g 0:03:44:15 45.07% (ETA: 04:29:14) 0g/s 488.1p/s 976.3c/s 976.3C/s kimi29..kimi0901
0g 0:07:15:25 DONE (2017-12-14 03:27) 0g/s 549.0p/s 1098c/s 1098C/s    000..*7¡Vamos!
Session completed
root@kali:~# john --show mypasswd
0 password hashes cracked, 2 left[/quote]

NOTE: you will see and be confused on my "wordlist" well that is where i put the list i downloaded named "rockyou.txt"

For some strange reason if i run say "--wordlist=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt" it in the terminal it will tell me there is no such file. But it is there and the permission on both are set to /

I have reversed the stanz before meaning  john --wordlist=/root/Desktop/my wordlist/rockyou.txt --format sha512crypt mypasswd

I get the same results. I am running Kali linux by the way. The passwords I am trying to crack are my own and not really that hard meaning 9 combination meaning caps and non caps and a few numbers. I do not feel why it takes hours to run and still does not have this.