How can I prevent iTunes 12 from syncing apps?

I know that syncing apps to your computer backs the app(s) up so you don't have to download the apps all over again, but for me it doesn't hurt to start all over downloading all the apps one by one. I have an iPhone 6 on iOS 8.1.2, one day I started syncing the iPhone to the latest version of iTunes 12 on my Mac running Lion (10.7.5). I was trying to sync new music onto the phone but iTunes insisted on syncing all 50 or so apps, half of them about 500MB or more, then on the halfway mark iTunes would not respond, I force quitted, reopen iTunes, and get a popup saying "The iTunes Library.itl is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file." I had to grab all of my music, books, and tones folder to my desktop, delete my iTunes library folder, and rebuild my iTunes library all over again putting all of my media back into the iTunes library folder. I did this so many times, sync, quit, rebuild library and get the same results. This irritates me because not only does it consume time, but it takes up space on my mac. Is there any way to prevent iTunes from syncing all of my apps to my Mac?

There are services.sync.prefs.sync prefs related to which prefs to sync and you can set the corresponding services.sync pref to false to prevent syncing that pref.
You can set the pref services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.startup.homepage to false on the about:config page.
To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website. 
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page. 
*Use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a preference more easily.
*Preferences that have been modified show as bold(user set).
*Preferences can be reset to the default or changed via the right-click context menu.

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