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Hi Applelight, the strange problem you have could be because you moved the special building before you digged out the purple box. Purple treasure box generally come with special building and i did not see any around the box, but this is just a guess.
The other option you can try is to select other than Dig let the map selection change, play few times see if the purple box lights up.