PowerShell New-Item output is inconsistent - Why? - powershell

Question

I am getting different out for the same powershell command and I am not sure why.
When this runs within a function, I get output 1 and when I run by itself I get output2
New-Item -Path C:\DEPL\nichdwww\deployments\Full\bob3 -type directory
Output 1
PSPath : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\DEPL\nichdwww\deployments\Full\bob3
PSParentPath : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\DEPL\nichdwww\deployments\Full
PSChildName : bob3
PSDrive : C
PSProvider : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem
PSIsContainer : True
Name : bob3
Parent : Full
Exists : True
Root : C:\
FullName : C:\DEPL\nichdwww\deployments\Full\bob3
Extension :
CreationTime : 6/23/2015 2:14:39 PM
CreationTimeUtc : 6/23/2015 6:14:39 PM
LastAccessTime : 6/23/2015 2:14:39 PM
LastAccessTimeUtc : 6/23/2015 6:14:39 PM
LastWriteTime : 6/23/2015 2:14:39 PM
LastWriteTimeUtc : 6/23/2015 6:14:39 PM
Attributes : Directory
BaseName : bob3
Mode : d----
Output 2
Directory: C:\DEPL\nichdwww\deployments\Full
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d---- 6/23/2015 2:45 PM bob3
Here is the function
function ArchiveFullSolution($wsp)
{
$ParentPath=Split-Path $wsp.DirectoryName -Parent
$FullPath=$ParentPath+'\Full\'
$Fullfilename=$FullPath+$wsp.Name
#$Fullfilename
#does file exist
if(Test-Path -path $Fullfilename)
{
#Make Full Archive folder
#$script:Makefolder
if($script:Makefolder)
{
#does folder exists
$DayFormat=Get-Date -f yyyy-MM-dd
if(Test-Path -path $FullPath$DayFormat)
{
write-host "folder $FullPath$DayFormat exists"
$DayTimeFormat=Get-Date -f yyyy-MM-dd-hh-mm
write-host "Creating folder $FullPath$DayTimeFormat"
New-Item -Path $FullPath$DayTimeFormat -type directory
$script:Makefolder=$false
$script:FullArchivePath=$FullPath+$DayTimeFormat
}
else
{
write-host "no folder exists"
write-host "Creating folder $FullPath$DayFormat"
New-Item -Path $FullPath$DayFormat -type directory
$script:Makefolder=$false
$script:FullArchivePath=$FullPath+$DayFormat
}
}
#move file into archive
Move-Item $Fullfilename $script:FullArchivePath
write-host "Moving file $($Fullfilename) to $FullArchivePath"
}
#copy file into full
Copy-Item $wsp.FullName $FullPath
write-host "Copying file $($wsp.FullName) to $FullPath"
}

Answer 1

Check your function. Most likely it is outputting another object first. After the PowerShell F&O (formatting and output) engine sees one type of object it wants to format everything after that like that type. If it then sees another type of object, it will fall back to using Format-List IIRC.