Powershell Copy-item command not working in script although it does work when run from a command line

I am on a Windows 7 machine trying to execute a PowerShell script to copy a template directory to another directory. The command I am executing looks like:

Copy-Item -path "$projectsFolder$SourceFolder" -destination "$Test" -recurse -verbose;

The parameters are as follows:

path: C:\Users\username\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\TemplateSolution\Source

Destination: C:\Users\username\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\test\source\main

When I run this command at a PowerShell prompt, the files are copied correctly. If I try and execute the command in the script with verbose enabled, it appears to copy the files and directories, but only the top level directory is created in the file system. I am开发者_开发百科 not sure why this would happen and I would appreciate any guidance or troubleshooting steps to perform.

Make sure you put quotes around the directory names if they have spaces in them. Also, you may need the -Force parameter to create destination directories if they do not exist.