Symptom

When migrating the object package between M2021 different Update version with Object Manager, user may see error after proceeding “Cannot apply package file ‘xxxxxx’ because it is based on a version ‘xxxxxx’ metadata, but this project contains a version ‘xxxxxxx’ metadata.”A sample screenshot as below :

Cause

Technically Object Manager supports package migration in same MSTR version between different updates, this error will appear if the package is created with different version of Object Manager tool.

Action

Please make sure version of Object Manger tool is same as the object package. Use same version of Object Manager to create the package then migrate to target environment.