How to resize margins / text frames for a whole book?

Hello, I am new to InDesign, but not Adobe software. I am trying to use InDesign to produce a book I have written for a university course I teach. I have 33 documents all together as an InDesign book. After I printed out some test pages I thought there should be more white space on all sides. I changed the margins by 5mm in the master page on the master document and then synced the book. Now the MARGINS have changed on all the documents, but the TEXT FRAMES remain unchanged. I know that I can change text frame sizes, by hand, but that would take forever. I can't find how I can automatically resize a whole book. Is this not possible?
Craig

Before synching, you need to enable layout adjustment in each document (Layout > Layout adjustment). Since you have 33 documents, you might want to run this little script to do it for you:
for (i = 0; i < app.documents.length; i++)
app.documents[i].layoutAdjustmentPreferences.enableLayoutAdjustment = true;
Open all the documents where Layout adjustment should be enabled and run the script.
Peter

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