diff --git a/python/obitools3/apps/optiongroups/__init__.py b/python/obitools3/apps/optiongroups/__init__.py
index c32c93b..e16a693 100755
--- a/python/obitools3/apps/optiongroups/__init__.py
+++ b/python/obitools3/apps/optiongroups/__init__.py
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ def __addImportInputOption(optionManager):
 
     group.add_argument('--skip-on-error',
                      action="store_true", dest="obi:skiperror",
-                     default=False,
-                     help="Skip sequence entries with parse error")
+                     default=True,
+                     help="Skip sequence entries with parsing errors")
 
     group.add_argument('--no-quality',
                      action="store_true", dest="obi:noquality",