run project in netbeans does nothing at all

So I'm trying to run a project of mine in netbeans after changing laptops and importing all files, however, when I try to run one of my projects, nothing happens at all. It happens when I press the green arrow, as well as when I right click the project -> run. I have selected the right file it should run. On my other laptop it runs just fine.

things I've tried:

• restarting netbeans
• closing project and reopening
• remove build.xml and restart netbeans
• clean and build
• locate project.properties, make a non change, save and restart netbeans.

I have experienced the exact same thing, very frustrating when nothing at all happens. If Netbeans at least could write something about it in the log file it would be great...

In my case I solved it by updating the work.dir in nbproject/private/private.propteries since it was not correct any more after a move of the project.