RAW photos are purple when imported

Aperture has just added RAW support for my Olympus E-M1.  I took several photos in JPG+RAW.  When importing them to Aperture the JPGs were fine but some, not all, of the RAW images became purple.  Is this an Aperture problem, an SD card problem, or camera problem?  Someone told me to reformat my SD cards because I had been using them on my Nikon camera, so I did.  Could this be the problem?  Also, when I put the SD card in my MacBookPro again, it showed up in Finder but not in the Import menu.  Could this also be related to not reformatting the card before taking RAW photos?  I haven't had the problem with JPGs with this camera.
Thank you for any help.

There a a number of different issues at play.
This is the embedded preview extracted using Exiftools. The preview is 3200 x 2400 which is 4 x 3. (I resized it here upload speed).
However, the embedded preview when seen in Aperture, is squashed into a 3 x 2 format image:
When the raw is loaded, this is what is seen.
As well as the purple issue, the file is cropped at the top and bottom and stretched back to 4 x 3 format. Very weird!
Aperture is mis-interpreting the files data, especially the blue channel which is all hunched into the image midtones.
If you add a curves adjustment and use auto (the coloured version) it will get the image a bit closer, I then tweaked the curves (and also used WB and Levels) to get the image closer:
However, obviously, the image is still cropped.
Here are the curves for each of the RGB channels. I added a second curve, to tweak the blue becuse it was hard to work with with the data all hunched up.
You don't need to be concerned about your raws. I checked them in RawTherapee and they seem fine and corruption-free.
I'm convinced this is an Aperture issue, where one of the settings is confusing Aperture (look for a common theme in the affected images, did you choose to shoot in 3 x 2, is it just the long exposure ones, etc).
When Apple releases a fix, your images should return to normal.
In the mean time, you can use Exiftool to extract the embedded previews to have 3200 x 2400 jpegs to play with, or use an alternative convert to create TIFFs for using in Aperture.
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