Unknown issue when trying to retrieve metadata from Salesforce sandbox

[Michael Speer]

Whenever I retrieve the metadata from any sandbox, I get this error. The errorID changes every time. Not sure how to troubleshoot.

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[Michael Speer]

here is the error log

[Scott Wells]

Duplicate of #1743.

[Scott Wells]

Hi. This is a known regression in Salesforce Winter '21 / API v50.0 as reported in #1743. The only known workaround until a fix is provided by Salesforce is to lower your API version to 49.0. I hope that helps.

[Michael Speer]

Thanks, that worked.